I should be sat here with a tin foil hat on BUT I have a horrible feeling my computer has been hacked into:eek:

I post on a couple of forums about a certain topic, but one of the forums has decided now that there is to be no mention of said topic! There have been all sorts of rumours about hacking, viruses and people’s email addresses and password being disclosed!

I have an up to date Norton programme on my computer. I am on BT Broadband but today, I posted a reply on a certain forum and stated my views on the banned topic and suddenly my Home Hub started going crazy. It kept freezing up, then it went off completely. We rang BT, there say they have no current problems and got us to reset the Hub. It is coming on intermittently but keeps coming up with a page that says “need to connect to a new Home Hub gateway” then it seems to work but only for a few minutes and then it does it all over again! Its taken me ages to put this post on.

Does this sound like hacking? Could someone do this kind of thing?

I have heard of stifling free speech but this is ridiculous! Maybe I am just paranoid.

I don't really know a lot about computers.

Nope, doesnt sound like hacking to me in that the certain forum will most likely not be the problem.

BUT

The BT Homehub is known to have very poor security, and it in itself is easily hacked using simple tools available on the web. It could be even be your neighbours doing it. A friend of my brother has a homehib, and he spends more time rebooting it as it keeps crashing.

There was an item on watchdog about the poor security on the homehub which uses WEP rather than WPA, and BTs response was that it was like that for compatibility and they were going to do nothing about it.

Yes.. the homehubs are not very stable at all, ours usually flips out with DNS issues on a regular basis

I have a home hub - wpa / wpa2 is not that big a risk wouldnt worry about security as hacking is way overrated. Sounds more like a line fault.

My one needs to be rebooted at least 2-3 times a month:thumbdwn: Always when you want to get online in a hurry:mad:

Didn't know there were security issues with the BT Hub:eek:

I have a home hub - wpa / wpa2 is not that big a risk wouldnt worry about security as hacking is way overrated. Sounds more like a line fault.

Agreed - the whole Watchdog thing is blown out of all proportion. Yes, they can be hacked. But that's like saying yes, your car can be broken into. Most of the serious hacking will be targetted and I think the people capable of it have bigger fish to fry than home users.

More likely a fault with the hub or the line.

Chris

God, what a palavar! Did a speed test and we were getting about 1meg, we normally get about 6! Rang BT twice, very helpful, NOT:finger: They said leave it for 4 days and see what happens! WTF, its not working now so how is leaving it gonna solve it, idiots

They said things were fine at their end and it sounded like a wiring fault at our end:confused:

Well, messed around, changing wires, unscrewing the socket thingie of the wall, son messed about on computer (dunno what he did, something about a repair:confused:) and it seems to be working at the moment and we are on over 6meg again. So don't know what the problem was exactly but I just hope it stays working, fingers crossed:D

The neighbours have logged off:rofl:

My mate has a BT box.

I had to get into it to make the wireless work.

It was set up with WEP (not good) as default.

Username/password was admin/admin

Not very good.