Can a wireless router get infected with a virus?
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Actually, yes, they can. The firmware of a router can be updated (essentially it's own little operating system) and can indeed be infected with a virus because of that. However they are extraordinarily rare, and not many routers are susceptible to the few that are out there. If you're concerned that it may have happened to you, you can reset your router back to it's factory defaults. How you do so depends on the router, check your router's manual. Doing this will wipe out all your settings, along with any virus that may be present. Again though, this is very, very rare. The odds of your router having a virus are extremely slim.
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yes, but beware of viruses
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watch out it could be a worm or a virus
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usually not, scan it with an antivirus
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Download Antispyware software: \nAd-Aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ ), \nSpybot SD (http://www.safer-networking.org/ ),\nEwido (http://www.ewido.com/ ).
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the only way this can be done is with either WPA or WEP protection. depending what router you have, it may be able to do one, the other, or both. WEP is probably the easyest and most secure of the two. what WEP does is it requests a "key" from each wireless computer trying to connect to your network. to do this, go to the defult gateway for your router (usually 192.168.1.1) and go to the wireless security tab. from this select the WEP option. you will need to configure each wireless enabled computer you use though with the WEP key that the router generates, sometimes it will creat a disket that will automaticly configure your computer for the WEP key.
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Yes each computer wireless card or ethernet card has a mac address.  they can trace from where ever to the router then check the router for the logs of the ip address it has gave out then look for the mac address of the last time the ip address was used.  Then just wait till you get on it again you can only be so far from the wireless router. :) Don't do anything shady :)
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A hardware firewall (your NAT router) and a software firewall is fine. In fact it is a prefered configuration. In the case that any malware gets on your machine the software firewall will alert you if the malware program is trying to "phone home".\n\n Two software firewalls is a no-no, however.\n\nWindows firewall is useless in this case as it only monitors inbound packets. McAfee is a two way firewall monitoring both incoming and outgoing traffic.\n\nLeave Windows firewall off and leave your McAfee PF and your router's firewall both on.
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yes. b cuz people can hack in 2 it while its on & give u a virus
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it gets viruses from the computer
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Yes, what about it? Complete sentances are a good thing.\n\nWill assume you mean how do I setup my wireless Linksys router with SBC aDSL so that my wirless network is secure?\n\nWhat Linksys product do you have? What wireless devices do you have and what do they support?\n\nWEP is not secure but better than nothing. MAC address filtering is something else to help stop users from connecting to your network but again it is not secure. For the average home users we setup WPA-PSK with a strong key, turn off SSID broadcasting and MAC filtering if all devices support that.
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Firmware updates are the best way of maintaining your router, they often will have updates to the firewall (if your has one) which is the backbone of the security within the router.  Also admin password changing is a good thing to stop any persons bypassing your security.  \n\nAs with all hardware a good blast of compressed air can help as well - dust will build up within the unit (causing heat)
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turn off your router, and when you can hear your neighbor swear then he's using your wireless connection ;-)))\n\nmore serious - most routers have an access led. when you close all your programs using the internet and the access led is still blinking, then your neighbor is using your wireless connection.\nlike others said, use WEP or WPA encryption and addional MAC filtering, then you can be sure no one will be able to use your wireless connection (that's how i've setup my wireless router).
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YEs, I have had my antivirus block things just by going to a website. Make sure you have an antivirus with a web filter enabled on it.
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There is no ultimate programme for protecting from viruses and other malicious programmes.  However, ISP can do this, but they won't do it, coz of antivirus companies.  If ISP starts protects their clients, then antivirus companies will be closed.  \n\nMy recommendition is, use McAfee antivirus, configure it for full protection.  As of my experience, with full configuration and updation of antivirus patch by McAfee, there is no attack and no virus problem experienced.  Because of McAfee, system will be little bit slow, since it is using the background scanner.
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Your wireless router sends the signal as far as it can, anyone with a wireless card can pick up that signal if they are within it's range. If you do not want them to piggy back off your wireless internet you will have to access your router and encrypt the signal coming out of it so that no other computer except yours will understand it's signal. To access the router click the start button and click the run option. From there type in cmd. A black window will pop up, In that window type ipconfig and hit enter. Look for where it says "Default Gateway" Type that number that it gives you into your internet explorer address bar and it will open your router. From there you can encrypt your wireless signal. Be sure to put the password it gives you into your computers that are using wireless or you will not be able to access your own internet once you encrypt it.
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there are most likely features on the router (i'd need to know which one you had) that accomplish this.  my home router has that capability and our two at work do as well (we used it for that specific reason, in fact ;) )\n\nyou may also turn off file/print sharing on the infected computer and alter its domain or workgroup name.