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by nightfrogs
Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:35 am
Forum: Networks and Wireless Routers
Topic: Issue with config on one pc on wireless home network
Replies: 1
Views: 2574

Issue with config on one pc on wireless home network

Hi,

For the last couple of weeks, i've had rubbish speed on my pc when connected to wireless. Used to get around 6Mbps bandwidth but this has decreased to around 2Mbs.
I have 2 other machines (i have not tampered with :/) on the same network which perform fine (around 6Mbps).

I tried all your ...
by nightfrogs
Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:12 am
Forum: Network Security
Topic: Repeated password thefts and DOS attacks
Replies: 4
Views: 9400

What kind of security software are you running? Seems like you might have a key logger on your machine and if so, I wouldn't trust that any of your other accounts haven't/may have gotten hacked.

For info, the account has now been stolen 7 times in 4 days...

I ran the following:

Win7 all up to ...
by nightfrogs
Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:27 am
Forum: Network Security
Topic: Repeated password thefts and DOS attacks
Replies: 4
Views: 9400

DoS or DDoS attack ? It should be easy to block if it is not "distributed" (coming from many source IPs), otherwise you may have to take it up with your Interenet provider.

How do you determine that your router is being attacked ? Your external/router IP being probed occasionally is very common ...
by nightfrogs
Mon Nov 12, 2012 5:11 am
Forum: Network Security
Topic: Repeated password thefts and DOS attacks
Replies: 4
Views: 9400

Repeated password thefts and DOS attacks

Hi, over the last few days, my EA/Origin account has been hijacked by the same russian email address.
I have reinstated it, changed it to a strong password, changed my other passwords linked to my email address and have today noticed some DOS attacks on my router IP. (access to UDP ports which i ...