Re: Someone using my newsgroup account
- From: "DK1000" <bwana1SPAMMENOTREMOVE@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:24:22 -0400
Thanks everybody for the advice. Sorry so late a response. I wiped clean the
HD, re-installed XP Pro. dropped the Shoutcast server, and made more secure
my wireless connection. Wireless only enabled a few hours a week when I need
it, and then I click Disable (wireless) when finished. Only PC that had Win
98 SE was the "remote" one I use only a few hours a week, "Loose 98" isn't
on my main PC. I haven't had any problems now since I originally posted in
late July. I realize WEP isn't the most secure, but again, I'm only using
wireless a few hours a week, and I'll figure WPA out soon. I'm using a
unique name, not "Linksys" and set SSID to not broadcast. So it's a start?
"DK1000" <dke3591@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1154114164.323337.187910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I'm a noob to networking, and wondering what I can do in this case. I
have
Adelphia cable Internet, and they have a contract with Giganews to
provide
newsgroup access as part of Adelphia's High Speed Internet packages.
You are
allowed 5 Gigs a month of newsgroup access. If you go over that, they
ban
you using or even viewing newsgroups for the rest of the month. Last
month I
got a message that my newsgroup usage was 15 G (3X the limit) within
the
first 4 days of the new usage month, which always starts on the 12th
for me,
and that I cannot access that service until next moth, unless I want to
open
a separate paid account with Giganews. I do post a little, but it's
only
been a few text messages lately, and the reading of replies, so I
should be
nowhere near 3 gigs! I called Adelphia and complained to them that
there
must be an error, and they said there's nothing they can do, it's under
Giganews control, but Giganews has no phone number, and I played cat
and
mouse with emails and they told me to contact Adelphia. Finally
Adelphia was
nice enough to change my account name, thus letting me start a fresh
newsgroup account. This month, from the 12th, up to yesterday, when I
checked my newsgroup usage, which I do every day now, it said I only
used
something like 100Kb or so, and about 0.01% usage. This morning I
checked
it, and it said I used 1,909,792 KB or 36.43%. I immediately shut down
my
Shoucast server connection, and disabled my wireless router connection,
details next paragraph. I'm the only one with access to my own PC's.
I have 3 computers hooked up via a Linksys BEFW11S4 router (uses B, not
G
technology). 2 PC's are wired in via Ethernet cable, and another is
linked
via a Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adaptor. I don't see any signs of
connection other than my PC's, and I use the default security settings,
so I
don't need a password for my wireless connection. I'm still trying to
figure
out how to connect an old 98 SE PC using a password or some type of
security
so my router will only talk to that PC wirelessly. My hardwired PC's
are
XP Pro and MCE 2005. I also am using my XP Pro PC as a Shoutcast
server. I
have a hunch that someone may be connecting wirelessly somehow? In some
"stealth" mode? Or should I look more at Shoutcast letting someone
somehow
use my connection? Any other ways someone can access my newsgroup
account?
Any advice would be appreciated. I'm thinking the obvious, wireless or
Shoutcast, but could it be something else?
.
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