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BMW asked in Computers & InternetComputer Networking · 10 years ago

Why is there repeated admin login failures to my router?

Checked the logs on my netgear router yesterday and noticed repeated admin login failures from an IP address on the network...Checked the attached devices and it is coming from one of my roommate's computers...checked her computer and didn't notice anything that could be causing this...but as long as she is connected to the network the admin login failures keep occuring every second...had her run a virus scan but she doesn't have a lot of security software...What could be causing this on her computer and what can I do about it?

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UPDATE: I downloaded Malwarebytes on her computer and did a quick scan. It found about 200 infected items. The recommended actions were taken against those items and the computer was restarted. I also changed the wifi password for the network. After all this was done I checked the logs for the router and the failed admin login is still happening but instead of multiple attempts per second, it is now at 1 attempt per minute (down to the second). There is a full scan running on her computer now but I don't think it will turn up anything that the quick scan didn't. Any other solutions out there?

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  • meatballs
    Lv 4
    10 years ago
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    roomates trying to hack you, or they have a "malware" that is trying to hack your network...download this to both your computers(link provided), install, then update this, then quick scan, ....very good at finding stuff...76million people cant be wrong

    Source(s): http://www.malwarebytes.org/
  • josu頦
    10 years ago

    maybe she had been hacked and their using her pc as a brigde to get to the router, they should be using a password remover tool that's trying to access it. Enforce your password with more hexadecimal character and length, this should have more fun! waiting for a year :P and add a firewall on your friend pc

  • Cheerful1
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    maybe someone highjacked her mac address and is attempting to hack your router

  • Q8ia
    10 years ago

    Dunno

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