sort of OT: Linksys router blocking certain sites

Jim March 1.jim.march at gmail.com
Sat Aug 1 16:06:06 MST 2009


On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Jason Hayes<jason at jasonhayes.org> wrote:
> Not sure why this is happening.
>
> My Linksys WRT54GS router just suddenly (yesterday a.m.) started blocking a
> group of sites that I administer. I was working on one of the sites and it
> started getting slower and slower, then finally cut out.

Odd.  There's Windows malware in the wild that knows the default
username/passwords (and IP addresses) for various routers and tries to
hack them.  Any Windows stations, and did you change the admin
password for the router?


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