Hi Martin,
I don't know if this is what you are looking for but it may help. Under
the Wireless Networks tab of the network card properties there is and
Advanced button that will allow you to set a check box to only allow
connection to Access point networks. The default is any network.
Ron Robinson
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From: Flagg, Martin D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:19 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID of "Free Public WiFi"
Does anyone know how to shutdown the ability of XP to act as an
ad-hoc network? I would like this add this check to CCA but have not
figured out how to do it.
Martin Flagg
Hiram College
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From: David Warner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:09 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID of "Free Public WiFi"
If a computer were doing this, it could also be logging
sensitive data for exploitation.
At 02:55 PM 11/27/2006, you wrote:
I have been seeing the same SSID as well as several others that
are
continually showing up on our network. After further
investigation, and
some testing to verify, I have determined that it is caused by
wireless
profiles configured on a Windows computer.
I set up a test using a unique broadcast SSID on an access
point, then
connected to it with a WinXP box (which automatically creates a
wireless
profile for that SSID). I then shut down both the AP and the
WinXP
client. Using another wireless client I viewed available
wireless
networks, the unique SSID was not seen. I then turned the WinXP
box
back on, without connecting to any wireless network, and there
it was,
the unique SSID being broadcast as an Ad-Hoc network. Turn off
the XP
box and the SSID disappears, turn it back on and there it is
again. I
then removed the profile for that SSID from the XP box and the
Ad-Hoc
network never appeared again.
Ron Robinson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Badman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 1:18 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] SSID of "Free Public WiFi"
SSID: "Free Public WiFi"
Am seeing dozens and dozens of these on any given day as
detected by our
Cisco LWAPP system- all ad hoc. Internet searching digs up
articles like
this
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1239995&page=1
and this
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,16550092
With some speculation that some sort of malware is opening a
door to
the wired network through a given user's wireless connection.
Others say
that it's just something that got picked up travelling, where
the user
actually connected to some commercial hotspot with that SSID...
Wondering if anyone is seeing this same noise on a large scale,
and
perhaps have done their own analysis on actual client machines
putting
it out there over the air?
This one sounds plausible, and may be the "real" answer-
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2006/09/free_public_wif.html
where it is a viral-spread condition, but not a virus. But is
amazing
how many of these are out there- over 40 right now that I can
see on our
network.
Curious in Syracuse-
Lee
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