<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">Bobby Gill wrote:<br>
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Yesterday, my sites stopped loading in Firefox all of a sudden, and I<br>
whipped out the shell to do a quick ping <a href="http://google.ca" target="_blank">google.ca</a>, which didn't respond. I<br>
tried opening up my Linksys CP in FF @ 192.168.1.1, but it timed out as<br>
well. However, my SSH connection to my mythbox/server was running fine. I<br>
was in a big hurry at the moment so without looking into the issue I ran<br>
down to the basement and power cycled the router (not the best idea perhaps,<br>
but again, was in a hurry).<br>
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It just happened again now. I am wondering what this could be and what I<br>
should look for if/when it happens again, as it's becoming pretty<br>
irritating. It's not my cable modem, it is running fine and there have been<br>
no outages in my area. It must be the router, but I don't know enough about<br>
them to see what it could be and/or how to fix.<br>
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I'm running a Linksys WRT54GS with the most recent firmware (Firmware<br>
Version: v1.52.5), and I have my mythbox (BE/server) and desktop/FE.<br>
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Figured I'd ask my mythlist brethren of knowledgeable folk :)<br>
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Sorry, in a hurry, no time to check, but there's a virus/worm/whatever around which attacks routers *like yours*. It locks you out of adminning your box then turns it into a bot. Nuke it and rebuild, and make sure you give it a strong enough password.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Well I'll be, how do I "nuke and rebuild" the router? You mean do a reset on it and change password for the admin??<br>