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My INTERNET has a FREELOADER (Help me stop Him.. please, I am bout to CRY!!)?
Posted under Setup Twitter by adminI have an HP computer that most likely has VUNERABILITIES (sp?).. A few days ago i purchased a new router LINkSYS WRT120N and also upgrade from 2009 NORTON INTERNET SECURITY to 2010 (which I love better, by the way)….
Anywho,several weeks ago my neighbor asked if he can use my internet for online college classes (liar). I immediately told him I only have Dial up…(He say yeah i remember those days). Now I found this amusing because 2 days before he asked me to use my internet for free… I found out someone was leeching on to my internet & somehow got MY MAC ADDRESS & norton 2009 told me THAT AN INTRUDER WAS TRYING TO BREAK INTO MY COMP!! (deep sigh)
I was high on frustration trying to figure out who it was! So I REINSTALLED MY OPERATING SYSTEM TO GET THE HACKER OUT!! Then 2 days later this neighbor (as I stated above) asked me can he use mine! Guess he didnt enjoy feeling frustrating as of me kicking him out my comp!!
After reinstalling my comp..I turned on wireles network to see how many wireless networks were availible and what UNIQUE names would pop up (without my new router being installed on my comp or being connected to the internet). There were I kid you not atleast 22 (2wires) & 6 (unique names). So yeah I do live in a neighborhood, where there are alot of wifi & internet users. The FREELOADER could be ANYONE or MY SUSPICIOUS NEIGHBOR!!
This morning I happen to log on to MY ROUTER ADMIN SETUP. I heard that MAC ADRESS FILTERING helps some. I happen to go into Mac address filtering & found another ADDRESS under my COMP MAC ADRESS. Immedialety, I enabled mac addy filtering and took thee 2nd address out (saying only my COMP MAC ADDY can access the network)..Something told me to go further, I happen to look in MAC ADDRESS CLONING & that same ADDRESS that I removed from MAC ADRESS FILTERING WAS LISTED in mac adress cloning? ( I ask you what the hell is going on? IS THIS HACKER persistant or what? hE IR SHE IS GETTING ON MY NERVES!!!!
My comp wifi security is WPA2-PSK, Windows service pk 1 ( i dont have money rite now to purchase new pc) As soon as I enable mac addy filtering. these things were trying to access the internet…SPOOLSV.EXE, CSRSS.EXE, DEFAULT BLOCK SSDP.
Really guys i bout to explode, please help with keeping ports closed, MAC ADDY FILTERING, MAC ADDY CLONE, hackers going after HP Computers!??????????!
Let me say thee only things I use my comp for is to check YAHOO NEWS, JOB APPLICATIONS & GOOGLE MAPS. I saty far far away from community network sites (myspace, twitter, youtube). I dont even play video games on my comp…I dont even keep personal files on my comp ( havent did that for about a couple months–due to situations that I am experiencing now).
What other comp & internet & wifi safety precautions can I take to get this FREELOADER of my internet???
P.S sorry i type so much !!
BY the way Just to Let every one know.. I do have an EXTREMELY long and unique password on my router.. I do not have an Unsecured Network!
Ok first off … calm down.
All you can do is enable your router’s encryption which you already have done. You could also do some MAC address filtering as you already are aware of.
Beyond that there is not much you can do. All of those programs you mentioned are not people trying to hack into your system. Those are vital windows system processes that REQUIRE network access to function properly. Norton Internet Security actively blocks everything and requires you to ‘Approve’ those programs that can access the network be it internally or externally out on the internet.
Just because norton is reporting that something is hitting your connection doesn’t mean someone is trying to hack you specifically are is on your wireless internet connection. There are 100’s of reasons why an external connection is attempted on your IP address. The most common is that botnets (and there are a ton of them) could simply be doing a scan against ALL of your ISPs IP’s on your particular subnet to find vulnerable systems. This could be just a harmless scan to find easy targets. Your system believe it or not is more protected than many average users and you are aware of things the avg consumer don’t necessarily know about.
In my experience with Norton Internet Security, I found that it gives a lot of alarmist warnings and messages that are entirely useless because they more often than not are not attacks on your system and is just normal broadcast traffic within your own home network and services running on yoru system. If you are not familiar with the inner workings of what should and shouldn’t be running it can make an average user think they are under heavy attack from some unknown outside force thats going to rob them blind and steal all their data.
Most routers have a way where you can see every device that is actively using your connection. Look for this in your routers interface and see whats connected. If you see more devices than you actually have connected then yes you may have a problem. The most you can do is change your wireless encryption key, utilize MAC address filtering (Which I personally don’t use, I think it’s a waste of time since MAC addresses can be spoofed, but it does add an additional layer that an attacker would have to guess/break through), and put a password on your router’s administrative interface.
If your router’s administrative interface is not password protected and it is enabled to allow remote administration anyone could simply stroll in across the internet and re-configure your router’s setting and/or get your encryption key.
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put a password on your wireless router.
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Re-installing your OS really doesn’t do anything. What you need to do is to set a truly unique password for your wireless router. Clearly you didn’t and that’s how he’s freeloading. It’s incredibly difficult to freeload off a secured wireless connection unless your neighbour is a hacker. So what you need to do is to follow your wireless router’s instruction manual and put in a new security password (that will be difficult/impossible for others to know) and you’re good to go.
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Call the Geek Squad or something. You’re in over your head and you’re going to end up blocking your own computer from the router. Somebody using your router for internet access isn’t the same thing as them accessing your computer, but since you seem to be so worried about it have somebody who knows what they’re doing look at your computer. You’re going to break something the way things are going anyway so just take care of it now before you really screw things up.
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Yeah a unique password is definatly the best way to go, also if possible just run a wired network and disable the wireless on your router. But if this isn’t an option (ex. you have an itouch) make sure you have a very unique password on your wireless, using different cases and fairly long, For example mine is AdMinPaSSdoNtTOUch
PS dont waste your time with Geek Squad, you can’t break your router by changing the settings.
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hahaha… if you are blocking the MAC address under MAC address cloning on your router/ PC, then you are blocking your router/PC. MAC address cloning is a way to assign a new or temporary MAC address to your router.
You are doing everything you can be. In fact I doubt there was ever a problem of someone using your internet unless it was unsecured (no encryption). It sounds more like you downloaded malware.
If your router is wireless turn on the encryption. You said your computer wifi security is WPA2-PSK, but I’m not sure what you mean by that. If that is your connection to the Router then that is fine. If you are connected to the router by a hard line, just turn off your wireless.
If someone is still getting on they are a professional and have some kind of vendetta against you. In order to break through that kind of security they would need serious know how. No one would go through that much trouble just for wireless internet. Especially if there were other targets (most likely easier targets) in range.
In short. You are being paranoid.
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Ok first off … calm down.
All you can do is enable your router’s encryption which you already have done. You could also do some MAC address filtering as you already are aware of.
Beyond that there is not much you can do. All of those programs you mentioned are not people trying to hack into your system. Those are vital windows system processes that REQUIRE network access to function properly. Norton Internet Security actively blocks everything and requires you to ‘Approve’ those programs that can access the network be it internally or externally out on the internet.
Just because norton is reporting that something is hitting your connection doesn’t mean someone is trying to hack you specifically are is on your wireless internet connection. There are 100’s of reasons why an external connection is attempted on your IP address. The most common is that botnets (and there are a ton of them) could simply be doing a scan against ALL of your ISPs IP’s on your particular subnet to find vulnerable systems. This could be just a harmless scan to find easy targets. Your system believe it or not is more protected than many average users and you are aware of things the avg consumer don’t necessarily know about.
In my experience with Norton Internet Security, I found that it gives a lot of alarmist warnings and messages that are entirely useless because they more often than not are not attacks on your system and is just normal broadcast traffic within your own home network and services running on yoru system. If you are not familiar with the inner workings of what should and shouldn’t be running it can make an average user think they are under heavy attack from some unknown outside force thats going to rob them blind and steal all their data.
Most routers have a way where you can see every device that is actively using your connection. Look for this in your routers interface and see whats connected. If you see more devices than you actually have connected then yes you may have a problem. The most you can do is change your wireless encryption key, utilize MAC address filtering (Which I personally don’t use, I think it’s a waste of time since MAC addresses can be spoofed, but it does add an additional layer that an attacker would have to guess/break through), and put a password on your router’s administrative interface.
If your router’s administrative interface is not password protected and it is enabled to allow remote administration anyone could simply stroll in across the internet and re-configure your router’s setting and/or get your encryption key.
Free Live Help: http://chat.secureme-site.com/purechat.aspx
05/25/2010 only.
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