Perhaps the only answer to hacking is to simply dedicate one computer with a very small Hard drive to nothing but internet surfing and leave it completely open to hackers.
A scrubbing each day of anything left new on the hard drive would prevent use of the HD for storing hacker’s info.
With no infomation and no email, wouldn’t they quickly tire of your computer and leave it alone?
I doubt that you are often targeted as an individual. A particularly important institution would be consciously targeted but for the rest of us it is catch as catch can.
I should have added that I like the idea of a dedicated internet computer. You wouldn’t need anything powerful/expensive. A second computer, rarely or never attached to the net, could hold what you would keep to yourself.
They're called honeypots, and they are in wide use today.
A scrubbing each day of anything left new on the hard drive would prevent use of the HD for storing hacker’s info.
With no infomation and no email, wouldn’t they quickly tire of your computer and leave it alone?
Actually, there is a program you can get that saves your clean system configuration to a separate part of the hard drive, then restores that configuration every time the computer boots up. It's very nice for schools and libraries and such.
Microsoft makes a program called Steady State that wipes a machine to a known configuration at every boot. It can even be set to wipe everything in the documents folder.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
they would then use YOUR computer as a zombie proxie to attack other computers.
This would leave you wondering why the FBI has you face to the floor and snapping cuffs on you. (oh and they would also shoot your dog, just kidding.)