"leave my door open just a crack"
Jan. 6th, 2010 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcityI'm on the COD wiki when I receive a message from another Wikia wiki; Club Penguin, which I had never even heard of. I mosey on over and I find that someone from my IP address was apparently responsible for vandalism.
A short time ago, I found out my IP was also banned from Wikipedia. Not just suspended, outright banned, for vandalism. If I'm not mistaken, that means someone on our local or wireless is running around the internet trollin'.
And that makes me angry.
A few months ago, I switched out wireless from the usual WPA password protection to WEP, so my DS could get on. This also had the benefit of changing the password from an actual word to a random string of letters and numbers. What I wanna know is why someone with enough tech-savvy to brute-force something like that-admittedly, it takes only minutes-would even need to get onto someone else's wireless network. I mean, they could be trying to keep their IP clear, but in that case, why not just use a proxy?
The other option is that one of our two computers has been turned into a bot by a virus, which is why I'm scanning the desktop I'm typing this on right now. Given that it's almost a decade old, it should be finished, oh, next Tuesday.
EDIT: Come to think, our IP has been on SpamHaus before, long before we even got the router. I looked it up, and it's still on one of their lists, listed as possibly infected by a Trojan. Assuming Batelnet is assigning Dynamic IPs, that means there's someone in town without virus protection who happens to be screwing me over. Remember kids, when you don't use protection, you're screwing everyone your computer has ever had sex with.
Wait.
A short time ago, I found out my IP was also banned from Wikipedia. Not just suspended, outright banned, for vandalism. If I'm not mistaken, that means someone on our local or wireless is running around the internet trollin'.
And that makes me angry.
A few months ago, I switched out wireless from the usual WPA password protection to WEP, so my DS could get on. This also had the benefit of changing the password from an actual word to a random string of letters and numbers. What I wanna know is why someone with enough tech-savvy to brute-force something like that-admittedly, it takes only minutes-would even need to get onto someone else's wireless network. I mean, they could be trying to keep their IP clear, but in that case, why not just use a proxy?
The other option is that one of our two computers has been turned into a bot by a virus, which is why I'm scanning the desktop I'm typing this on right now. Given that it's almost a decade old, it should be finished, oh, next Tuesday.
EDIT: Come to think, our IP has been on SpamHaus before, long before we even got the router. I looked it up, and it's still on one of their lists, listed as possibly infected by a Trojan. Assuming Batelnet is assigning Dynamic IPs, that means there's someone in town without virus protection who happens to be screwing me over. Remember kids, when you don't use protection, you're screwing everyone your computer has ever had sex with.
Wait.
