Should I be worried?
 

I was talking to a couple of friendsa who are also wannabe hackers. Anyhoo, there were saying they might have some fun with my machine as port 21 is open, and they've got my IP address.

Do I need to be worried at all?

i assume you have a firewall running?
well close port 21 if you are worried so much.

there is still a long way between talk and actually doing things.

and are you sure these kids are friends???
friends wouldn't say these things.

if theyre your freinds, then no. otherwise get a firewall and antivirus

One is a friend, and he has since told me he won't, but the other just might. I've tried googling to find out how to close port 21, but all the resluts seem to be for linux,. Any help?

Try shields up to scan for open ports.

Port 21 is used for FTP. Unless you're running an insecure FTP server , there's not much they can do to it.

Personally i feel that when someone says "im a hacker" then all that you know is that the guy is trying to catch attention... so, dont believe them.
Maybe THEY should feel worried and better to go to a psiquiatric or something to calm they suffering.

A dangerous hacker will never advertise himself as such.

As soon as he said hell hack you, you should have hit him in the face with a lightbulb.

whenever i hear i am a hacker, i think...oOo you know how to download porn for free.

Bloody great. This reatrded 'hacx0r' ot whatever has just gotton inbto my msn account. So if anyone here gets daft messages, you know why.

Next time you see your friend, whack him in the head with a monkey wrench and be like "pwnt! LOLZ!"

...or something along those lines...

I tried logging into Hotmail, and my secret question now is 'Who pwns j00'





Fuck.

Strip your computer of any internet connections or power supplies...

I'll come by your house and loan you my Winchester 30-30...

Why, praytell, is your hotmail account so important to you? I only use hotmail for stuff I know to be spam (or suspect to be spam), don't you have a more secure mail server you use?

Isn't hacking concidered a crime of terror now? If you have the chat-logs, call the police.

Hacker and script kiddy are two different things alltogether.

Hacking a hotmail server isn't exactly a feat of genius or anything. They're about the least secure as far as servers go. It's pretty much Microsoft's policy to always make sure that everything they create has security holes you could drive a mack truck through. It's become tradition now, so I don't foresee any improvements.

Oh yeah... you're clueless.

I'm with the rest. Someone that really truly knows how to hack sure aint going to walk around talking about it.