Understanding Internet security and solving

[giridharseel]

This days people apply to net connection in some service providers and they came and configure the connection with default settings,thats the fault the default password for routers had not been changed for safety,But this leads a better way for hackers to hack your connection and use your username and password for some other bladdy reasons.
So to make your connection secure do this,
Goto the browser and type http://192.168.1.1/ or http://192.168.1.2 (this is two default gateways for two different type of connections that the modems uses)
While it asks for userauthentication use this username:admin, password:password or admin or ZXDSL or 123456 or 1234,
now go to password session and change this default password to your own and next find the session called remote routing or something like that and unmark or disable the remote routing access, This makes your connection to be more secure and can opened only from your computer.

[tashi]

Hello giridharseel,

More information, detailed articles on Steve Lamb's Blog at TechNet. :)

Blogcast showing how to secure a home wireless network via WPA - updated to point to the new blogcasts (http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2005/05/09/blogcast-showing-how-to-secure-a-home-wireless-network-via-wpa-updated-to-point-to-the-new-blogcasts.aspx)

How to secure a wireless network: Part 1 of 5 - Enabling WPA on a wireless router (http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx)

(http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-1-enabling-wpa-on-a-wireless-router.aspx)
How to secure a wireless network: Part 2 of 5 - How to change the SSID (http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-2-of-5-how-to-change-the-ssid.aspx)

(http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-2-of-5-how-to-change-the-ssid.aspx)
How to secure a wireless network: Part 3 of 5 - Reconfiguring a Vista client to connect to your WPA secured access point (http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-3-of-5-reconfiguring-a-vista-client-to-connect-to-your-wpa-secured-access-point.aspx)

(http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-3-of-5-reconfiguring-a-vista-client-to-connect-to-your-wpa-secured-access-point.aspx)
How to secure a wireless network: Part 4 of 5 Connect using WPA for the first time on Windows Vista (http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-4-of-5-connect-using-wpa-for-the-first-time-on-windows-vista.aspx)

(http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-4-of-5-connect-using-wpa-for-the-first-time-on-windows-vista.aspx)
How to secure a wireless network: Part 5 of 5 - Connecting using WPA for the first time on XP (http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-4-of-5-connecting-using-wpa-for-the-first-time-on-xp.aspx)

(http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-4-of-5-connecting-using-wpa-for-the-first-time-on-xp.aspx)
How to secure a wireless network: How to view the advanced wireless interface on Windows Vista (http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/08/17/how-to-secure-a-wireless-network-part-5-of-5-how-to-view-the-advanced-wireless-interface-on-windows-vista.aspx)

Cheers.

[ken turbine]

As a backup to the warnings above, one of my relatives is an IT specialist who does not have Broadband at home, so they cannot be pushed to work from the house. When the new laptop (wireless enabled) was delivered and switched on, they got 4 (four) different unprotected wireless connections available from neighbours. The embarrasment level was so high they disabled the wireless setup and had a quiet word with those they could trace as to how they should protect themselves.
Remember it is not only download limits which could be being stolen, a few weeks ago, newspapers were full of the problems a home user had with the police when someone used their connection to download seriously unpleasant stuff from the net.

Be Careful, Protect Yourselves

Ken Turbine