Is your PC likely to suffer such a massive attack? If you're an individual or small-business user, probably not. The latter category includes "denial-of-service" attacks-like those that shut down Internet sites EBay and Yahoo last February when hackers bombarded the sites with data and caused the companies' servers to crash. Criminal hacking incidents can range from obnoxious to destructive.
But malicious or criminal hackers use their skills for devious purposes. They may not do any harm, and some even provide a service by discovering programming bugs and helping fix them. Many are simply curious folks who want to find out how a program or system works.
Subscribe to IDG.net's free daily newsletters Questions about computers? Let IDG.net's editors help you And law enforcement is unlikely to take action on any but the largest, most prominent computer crimes. The ISP cut off the intruder's service, but the miscreant could likely open an account with another ISP and continue his misdeeds. ZoneAlarm alerted Soifer to the flood of incoming passwords and helped him identify the hacker's Internet service provider-in Anchorage, Alaska.
Soifer followed its recommendation to download and install ZoneAlarm, a free personal firewall program.
Before the attack, he had visited Shields Up, a Web site dedicated to Internet security advice.
Finally, he installed personal firewall software to guard against future attacks. He spent two weeks investigating the problem (and learning more than he wanted to know about hacking) before realizing that he would have to back up his data files and reformat the hard drive to delete the hacker's self-replicating program. Champion of Barbs (Gold): Defeat all Jackals.Jarrard escaped catastrophe because a frozen system and an error message the next morning told him something was wrong. Murder Technician (Bronze): Defeat 100 Haters. The View From The Top (Silver): Defeat Taro Gunkanyama. Deserted Town (Bronze): Defeat Colonel Jackson. Circle Crusher (Silver): Achieve 100% home destruction on other players' bases 100 times.Īdditionally, there are six secret trophies:Īt The End Of The Tunnel (Bronze): Defeat Max Sharp. Hoarder's Curse (Silver): Collect everything (Magazines, Mother Barb Songs, Stamps). Mushroom Mania (Bronze): Eat 1000 mushrooms. Material World (Bronze): 500 equipped weapons/armor broken. Flirting Virtuoso (Bronze): Capture 100 Fighters. Impregnable Fortress (Bronze): 100 successful home defenses. Successfully complete one of the following tasks to get a trophy: Just take the elevator up if the vendor does not spawn, return to the Waiting Room and try again. If you have an Express Pass, 1-Day Limited Express Pass, or lots of Kill Coins, the easiest place to reach is 3F: TAGAHARA. Use the purple exit to each 8F: META-KOYA. Note: To fully explore 1F-10F, you need to defeat the first Don on 10F: OMENO-SOTO or JIN-DIE on 6F: MOKA-MOGAME.ģF: TAGAHARA - It is on the main route, located at a dead end, near the elevator.ĥF: DENDEN-CHOFU - It is accessed through the blue escalator exit from 4F: TAGAHARA.ģF: METAKOJIYA - From 1F, travel to 2F: WANOKI (orange exit in 1F), and using the purple exit.ĩF: YONEGUICHI - From 6F: MOKA-MAGOME, use the blue escalator to reach 7F: DANEDA. The vendor's location randomly changes every time you leave/enter the Tower Of Barbs from the Waiting Room. Search the indicated locations on floors 1F-10F to find the Blueprint Shop vendor. Arms dead end wall - a different special vendor appears in each section of the Tower Of Barbs. The secret Blueprint Shop vendor randomly appears in specific locations.