RE: OT : eBay

["Malcolm Surgenor" <malcolm@xxxxxxx>]

Paul

Thanks for the pointers...

Whilst eBay have been sympathetic and helpful, the most 'plausible'
suggestion they put forward is that the individual just guessed my
password.
But as I've always used a mixture of alphas and numerics I find this
difficult to believe.

I've always taken security pretty seriously and although I've a home
network
of 5 PCs, they are only used by individual members of my family, all
have
their own Windows logons and passwords. They all have ZoneAlarm Pro
running
and sit behind a Vigor 2600 ADSL router (my two sons' computers running
CyberPatrol as well).  So I'm very confident that this isn't an
internal
'hack'.

I will admit to using eBay from another computer recently - at work. But
as
far as I know their security measures are tighter.

I run Norton Anti Virus once a week here at home and have an up to date
subscription for their signature files. I also use SpyBot and Ad-aware
(although this is getting very out of date now) once or twice a month.

I took the opportunity this afternoon of trying out some of the
security
audit web sites (http://www.pcflank.com/test.htm
, http://www.auditmypc.com/
and http://grc.com/default.htm)
this afternoon. Mostly they gave me clean
bill of health. I will admit to opening up ports 6699 and 6257 from time
to
time to d/l music via WinMX.

One aspect I'm not clear about though is my HomeSeer (at last a HA link
in
this thread!) website is made available on one particular PC by opening
up
port 80 in the router and mapping it to that PC only. HomeSeer is the
only
software running on that PC although it itself does access the internet
to
check for updates, d/l local weather, etc). There are some shares
between
our PCs they are only directories containing music files for example -
none
of my installed software, cookies, etc are shared.  It's my
understanding
(albeit limited) that this doesn't expose a risk?

Appreciate any other comments...

Malcolm

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