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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?QW5uaWU=?= on July 20, 2008, 9:41 pm
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the password you're talking about? He does know it and I'm not sure how to
change it on my own. (I'll figure that out later) If that's not what you're
talking about, I have no idea if he changed anything else from default.
Guess I'll have to call the BrightHouse tech tomorrow.
I ran my antivirus: no virus
I ran AdAware: about 200 cookies
I ran Spybot: fixed 68
Computer was taking forever to reboot so I manually turned it off (by the
button). I knew right there something was wrong. All files were modified
with today's date, too. ???
Thanks so much for the info.
"Shenan Stanley" wrote:
> <snipped>
>
> Shenan Stanley wrote:
> > Oh - are you on high-speed Internet (Cable Modem, DSL, etc) and if
> > so - do you have a router between you and the internet? (Do you
> > connect directly to the Internet and get an actual external IP
> > address or an internal IP address?)
> >
> > If you are unsure - do the following..
> >
> > 1) Find out your IP address internally:
> > - Clcik on the Start button
> > - Select RUN
> > - Type in: cmd /k ipconfig
> > - Note the IP address...
> >
> > 2) Find out your external IP address:
> > - Open Internet Explorer
> > - Visit the following web page:
> > http://whatismyip.com
> > - Note the IP address...
> >
> > Are they different? Is your internal IP address 10.x.x.x or
> > 192.168.x.x? If so - you are behind a router. Hopefully this
> > router has been properly configured and the administrator password
> > on it changed.
>
> Annie wrote:
> > I'm using high-speed internet with a router. The tech brought
> > their own so it's brand new...Netgear. How could the password
> > change after he configured it? I'm lost.
>
> Annie wrote:
> > I'm using high-speed internet with a router. The tech brought
> > their own so it's brand new...Netgear. How could the password
> > change after he configured it? I'm lost.
>
> No - I said I *hoped* it had been changed fromt he DEFAULT... It comes from
> the factory with a default password set that anyone with the same router (or
> Internet access, or just guessing probably) could know.
>
> If you have a router - you were probably not hacked unless the 'tech' did it
> or that default password was not changed. By having a router - it makes you
> virtually invisible to the outside world (public internet) and without
> forwarding ports and services on the router itself - people are not going to
> be likely to get onto your computer. Those routers do not *require* that
> you change the password from default to work - nor do they usually require
> any actual configuration - just plug them in and go.
>
> Now - if the default (from the factory) password was not changed on your
> Netgear router - it is possible you got infested/infected with something
> that could give someone access to your computer despite the router being
> there and/or change the router settings to allow more remote control.
>
> If that router has been in place the whole time you were connected to the
> Internet and it did have its default password changed to something only you
> know (or your IT tech..) - then it is unlikely that you have been *hacked* -
> however - you may have been infested with a Trojan, a worm or spyware or
> adware. If so - that software could have easily sent out your information
> and/or whatever it wanted to whatever address(es) it was programmed to do.
> A software firewall *might* have helped in such a situation if it monitored
> outgoing traffic - but then again - it might not - as it may have been
> modified by the installation itself to allow for it to go unnoticed.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
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>
>
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