Re: Re: NAT and sharing my broadband advice wanted.

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

big_red_frog wrote:
> Presently I have removed my neighbour from my network, as I have had
> a closer look at their machine and it was riddled.
>
> I have managed to clean it up mostly with AVG, adaware and spybot,
> but I have an issue I canø't seem to tie down.
>
> It keeps resetting the homepage to thenewsearch.com at every reboot,
> as well as peppering this into the registry in lots of places, can't
> seem to track it down, or find anything on this particular varient on
> the net to help!

Have you checked the run and runonce keys in the registry.  They often run
from there, or install themselves as a service.  My suggestion?  fdisk

> Until I can lock that down he is off the airwaves!
>
> Anyway, I was thinking further, I am happy to lock my wireless to
> internet access only, as my hardwired network is coming up to speed
> now, (new build house) but I am not sure I can do even that.

I doubt you can.  I expect you can have MAC authentication on/off, WEP
on/off and that's it.  Anyone who sucessfully connects will get everything
(proper bandwidth aside).

> If I am using a USB adaptor at his end for the wireless, will it even
> have a MAC address?

Any networking device will have a MAC address.  It is a requirement to pass
data between devices (in simple terms).

> Yours, confused, Tony.
>
> It gets worse, my work place has just swapped project platforms, and
> everything is going linux, do I have to grow a beard now?

Yes.

Cheers,
Andy
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