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Need help, I think someone is hacking me

SP33Demon

SP33Demon

Lifer
Ok, I am really a noob when it comes to networking and routers. Basically what has been happening is every night my internet bandwidth will be extremely spotty, it would go completely down like someone else was stealing all my bandwidth b/c I would only get downloads of around 5K/s. I would be playing Warcraft 3 online and I would get dropped. I don't have a firewall set up through the router because I don't want to not be able to play Warcraft.

So I checked my router settings, and changed 2 settings: I Enabled "Discard PING from WAN side" and Disabled VPN Pass-Through settings "PPTP" and IPSec. That immediately fixed the problem last night. Am I right when I think someone was using my computer with this "VPN" setting?

Also, I checked the Status logs for the router:

TIME: Sep/11/2004 09:29:51 - MESSAGE: DHCP Request - NOTE: 67.133.243.18
TIME: Sep/11/2004 04:59:51 - MESSAGE: DHCP Request - NOTE: 67.133.243.18
TIME: Sep/10/2004 20:59:51 - MESSAGE: DHCP Request - NOTE: 67.133.243.18
TIME: Sep/10/2004 19:53:44 - MESSAGE: Ping of Death Detect - SOURCE: 69.157.254.26:32914 - DESTINATION: 67.133.243.18:14983 - NOTE: Packet Dropped
TIME: Sep/10/2004 19:52:44 " (same message as above)
TIME: Sep/10/2004 19:51:55 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 19:50:59 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 19:43:19 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 19:42:21 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 15:23:07 - MESSAGE: Ping of Death Detect - SOURCE: 69.0.81.168:33164 - DESTINATION: 67.133.243.18:14983 - NOTE: Packet Dropped
TIME: Sep/10/2004 15:12:07 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 15:00:57 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 14:34:19 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 14:26:36 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 14:25:22 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 14:20:41 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 14:14:06 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 14:10:11 "
TIME: Sep/10/2004 11:43:01 - MESSAGE: Ping of Death Detect - SOURCE: 66.36.133.252:32946 - DESTINATION: 67.133.243.18:14983 - NOTE: Packet Dropped
TIME: Sep/10/2004 19:59:50 - MESSAGE: DHCP Request success - NOTE: 67.133.243.18
TIME: Sep/09/2004 19:59:50 - MESSAGE: DHCP Request - NOTE: 67.133.243.18
TIME: Sep/09/2004 19:59:50 - MESSAGE: DHCP Discover
TIME: Sep/09/2004 19:59:46 - MESSAGE: System started
TIME: Sep/09/2004 19:59:46 - MESSAGE: DHCP Discover


At the end here it looks like someone connected through my router where it says "DHCP Request success", am I correct? If so, why would disabling the VPN and WAN Ping stop this? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. 🙂




 
i have cable internet by comcast and there is a program that they install on your computer called braod jump, its pretty much spyware, you can go ahead and google it if you want but i uninstalled it and took it off my start up list

thats if you have comcast though i dunno about other ISP's
 
Originally posted by: BriGy86
i have cable internet by comcast and there is a program that they install on your computer called braod jump, its pretty much spyware, you can go ahead and google it if you want but i uninstalled it and took it off my start up list

thats if you have comcast though i dunno about other ISP's
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Hi BriGy,

Nope don't have Comcast (have GMP in MD) but wouldn't spybot/adaware/spy sweeper catch broad jump? AFAIK, I don't recall having to install anything from GMP. I basically just hooked everything up and it worked...

 
the newer versions might catch it but i did this about 4-5 months ago

thats another thing, make sure you have the newest versions of each

spybot1.3 and then they just came out with ad-aware SE 1.04 (get the plugins for that too)

i myself have norton A/V pro 2004 and norton fire wall and it seems to stop spyware from even getting in (spybot just comes up with logs my computer makes now

but i do have a prob with the fire wall, i have to shut off my fire wall to get into these forums, any suggestions?
 
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