On 26 Jun 2009 at 9:29, Art DeKneef wrote: > Thought I would ask and see if others have experienced this. > > During the past two weeks I have had customers call and ask them to help them > with getting their Internet access working again at their house. In the five > cases that I have seen all of the routers have been reset to default. All > are made by Linksys, are different models, wireless, had been setup with > security and working fine for over a year. After entering the information > again the clients can access the Internet fine. > > Seems strange to me that would happen to this many devices within a relative > short period of time.
I have seen this, too. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that there is an exploitable hole in the Linksys software and the bad guys are using this to reset the routers to disable security and get access to them. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +-----------------------------------+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
