What I can't understand is that whoever has launched the latest attack today has left a trail (an internet address). How come they can't be traced and prosecuted? I know someone will tell me it's a perfectly legitimate scan allowed for in the bowels of some software agreement, but I have no freeware on my machine and most of the software is fully registered Apple Mac stuff.
I never get viruses either (so far as I know) but Norton has found a whole heap of Trojans and something weird happened to my main hard drive slowing it down to the point where it was unusable so I had to buy a new main hard drive and re-install all the software. When I did that everything worked fine.
Note from 2023: Portscan is a common method hackers use to identify weaknesses in a computer's defences. This is what was happening to me ten years ago and has continued to happen unremittingly ever since. At the time I was living in London, at 519 Lea Bridge Road, Walthamstow. Not long before this my rather wonderful Power Mac had been hacked and the hard disk trashed. I had to buy a new HDD and rebuild the computer, when I had better things to do like attempting to earn a living. A few days ago the Investigatory Powers Tribunal sent me a letter signed by a squiggle to say that my case was being given a reference number. Kafka it ain't. Kafka was funnier.
Jonathan Brind