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So I went to university this year, and prior to leaving, used my home PC alot. It had a terrible case of the browser redirect virus. I would click on a link and randomly be redirected to either google, a google.analytics page that never loaded, or some random advertisement. So I installed NoScript and was fine, I got redirected still occasionally but NoScript always stopped it from loading.
Anyways, come university I get my laptop and go away to school, everything is fine. I come home and am on our wireless network, only to find that I am now having this redirect problem again, but on my laptop.
Didn't bug me too much as I had noscript on there too. I'm back home now though and it's starting to get on my nerves. Even browsing from my iPod touch gets redirected.
So I'm wondering.. is it possible that my actual wireless router is infected?
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Wireless routers don't get infected. What probably happened was that the virus transferred over the network, as viruses are wont to do.
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On January 28 2011 09:53 Sc1pio wrote: Wireless routers don't get infected. What probably happened was that the virus transferred over the network, as viruses are wont to do. Actually Yes (read us, read us!)
Check the DNS settings on the router.You can also try resetting to factory settings.
Edit: Fixed wording hurf durf
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Simplest way for it to transfer to your laptop is by flash drive or external hard drive or anything like that.As far as the question - I believe not.
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I have the same problem with the rerouting business. Did you happen to transfer any files or have the laptop interact with the infected PC in anyway possible? Did you go to a no no website on your laptop? That virus you have could have been in your laptop for awhile, after dl or visiting some web, and not go off till something switched it on. Also might wanna get rid of that virus...they also tend to bring in a trojan dropper...
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Absolutely. There are a number of wireless router viruses, and a few (very few) cable modem viruses. The chances you have one are small, unless your control panel on it is outward facing (eg: it is accessible on the wild internet.) This is generally a setting somewhere in the control panel itself.
As yenta said, reset your router to factory defaults, make sure you have a solid password on it, and disable the outward facing control panel.
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On January 28 2011 10:10 heroyi wrote: I don't think a router is capable of getting a virus... viruses are programs running with .exe command...
I have the same problem with the rerouting business. Did you happen to transfer any files or have the laptop interact with the infected PC in anyway possible? Did you go to a no no website on your laptop? That virus you have could have been in your laptop for awhile, after dl or visiting some web, and not go off till something switched it on. Also might wanna get rid of that virus...they also tend to bring in a trojan dropper... That's like saying wood can't be held together by screws because screws aren't nails. Please people (not just heroyi either), don't talk about technical things if you aren't sure.
Anyway, start off by resetting your router's DNS addresses. If that doesn't work, do a 30/30/30 reset on your router. If you still have redirect problems, it's your ISP.
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On January 28 2011 10:27 tofucake wrote:Show nested quote +On January 28 2011 10:10 heroyi wrote: I don't think a router is capable of getting a virus... viruses are programs running with .exe command...
I have the same problem with the rerouting business. Did you happen to transfer any files or have the laptop interact with the infected PC in anyway possible? Did you go to a no no website on your laptop? That virus you have could have been in your laptop for awhile, after dl or visiting some web, and not go off till something switched it on. Also might wanna get rid of that virus...they also tend to bring in a trojan dropper... That's like saying wood can't be held together by screws because screws aren't nails. Please people (not just heroyi either), don't talk about technical things if you aren't sure. Anyway, start off by resetting your router's DNS addresses. If that doesn't work, do a 30/30/30 reset on your router. If you still have redirect problems, it's your ISP. I actually do apologize for that. I meant to edit the post before someone caught it :/
Does the virus do anything weird after it redirects you? Activate java or some program (check task manager).
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How complicated is it to have things back to normal after I do a factory reset on the router?
I didn't set it up.
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