Help in protecting my wireless router

Hi all,

Recently I bought a wireless router to connect to internet I heard that
if I do not protect my router, some hacker can use my router to connect
to internet. But I have no any clue to protect my router. By the way,
my router is Netgear 802.11G.

Thank you very much

rick

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> Hi all,
>
> Recently I bought a wireless router to connect to internet I heard that
> if I do not protect my router, some hacker can use my router to connect
> to internet. But I have no any clue to protect my router. By the way,
> my router is Netgear 802.11G.
>
> Thank you very much
>
> rick
>
This link below gives some of the basics that will stop the ignorant home
user your next door neighbor as an example. But more experienced one wants
to come at your setup, then there really nothing you can do. You're on the
*Air*

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm

They can be all over the top of your machines wired or wireless so you want
to use a personal FW with setting of LAN IP(s) that your machines are using
on the LAN from the router with on the PFW, blocking all other IP(s) DHCP or
Static that can be gotten from the router and block them.

If you can secure the O/S on the machines a little bit, than try to do that.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm

If the router has logging, then use something like Wallwatcher or Syslog
Daemon , both are (free) use Google, to what inbound and outbound traffic
to and from the router for possible dubious connections.

Duane

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Recently I bought a wireless router to connect to internet I heard that
> if I do not protect my router, some hacker can use my router to connect
> to internet. But I have no any clue to protect my router. By the way,
> my router is Netgear 802.11G.
>
> Thank you very much
>
> rick
>
The instruction book/CD with it tells you how to - all you have to do is
make the effort. God knows how you're going to set it up and use it, or
will the next post be asking how to make it connect or what your user name
and password should be!
Come on, a bit of effort, initiative and common sense required here.
If you scan the book in or copy the help files I am sure someone will read
them all back to you.
I will help anyone, but never someone that will not help themselves.

Duane Arnold wrote:
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Recently I bought a wireless router to connect to internet I heard that
>>if I do not protect my router, some hacker can use my router to connect
>>to internet. But I have no any clue to protect my router. By the way,
>>my router is Netgear 802.11G.
>>
>>Thank you very much
>>
>>rick
>>
>
> This link below gives some of the basics that will stop the ignorant home
> user your next door neighbor as an example. But more experienced one wants
> to come at your setup, then there really nothing you can do. You're on the
> *Air*
>
> http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm
>
> They can be all over the top of your machines wired or wireless so you want
> to use a personal FW with setting of LAN IP(s) that your machines are using
> on the LAN from the router with on the PFW, blocking all other IP(s) DHCP or
> Static that can be gotten from the router and block them.
>
> If you can secure the O/S on the machines a little bit, than try to do that.
>
> http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm
>
> If the router has logging, then use something like Wallwatcher or Syslog
> Daemon , both are (free) use Google, to what inbound and outbound traffic
> to and from the router for possible dubious connections.
>
> Duane
>
>
Thanks Duane from another NG reader. Site you pointed out helped me also.

Frank

.... -.- wrote:
> Duane Arnold wrote:
>
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com...
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Recently I bought a wireless router to connect to internet I heard that
>>> if I do not protect my router, some hacker can use my router to connect
>>> to internet. But I have no any clue to protect my router. By the way,
>>> my router is Netgear 802.11G.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much
>>>
>>> rick
>>>
>>
>> This link below gives some of the basics that will stop the ignorant
>> home user your next door neighbor as an example. But more experienced
>> one wants to come at your setup, then there really nothing you can do.
>> You're on the *Air*
>>
>> http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm
>>
>> They can be all over the top of your machines wired or wireless so
>> you want to use a personal FW with setting of LAN IP(s) that your
>> machines are using on the LAN from the router with on the PFW,
>> blocking all other IP(s) DHCP or Static that can be gotten from the
>> router and block them.
>>
>> If you can secure the O/S on the machines a little bit, than try to do
>> that.
>>
>> http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm
>>
>> If the router has logging, then use something like Wallwatcher or
>> Syslog Daemon , both are (free) use Google, to what inbound and
>> outbound traffic to and from the router for possible dubious connections.
>>
>> Duane
>>
>>
> Thanks Duane from another NG reader. Site you pointed out helped me also.
>

You're welcomed!

Duane