Guest guest37336 Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Hi all. A question for all you techs out there. I am on a secure network at home, passwords galore etc, and never had a problem before. But recently every time I fire up the desk top or laptop (funnily enough not my iphone) a message pops up and says, 'Your broadband connection seems to have been compromised, it will be disabled for one minute'. However, after a minute or so, nothing, so I have to go through the whole rigmarole of signing in using my passwords etc. Not a great pain in the bum, but still annoying. I have the fella who installed my broadband coming over this afternoon to have a look, but thought I would throw this one out there to get as many expert opinions as possible. Please bear with me, I am a complete numpty about computers, so if you could use layman's terms, :wubclub::wacko:. Is it possible that someone (as has been threatened recently) could hack into my broadband connection, according to my mate, it is possible and I have seen him do some fairly frightening things with his stuff, he truly is a whizz at IT and it shocked me what you can do with the correct knowledge and nouse. Cheers Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyman Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 have you tried wiggling the plugs until something happens.....................:biglaugh:....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I think anything is possible when it comes to computers, if they can hack the pentagon computers, they surely can hack........... yours' Has your computer been hacked ........... i doubt it. Not long back i switched a computer on at work after being off work for 3 days and others had been using it and...................... the screen lit up with my............. e-mails page being displayed. I have no idea why and the only explaination i have is that my site had been hacked by internal security............... who knows what goes on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desreb Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Hmm.. If you ever see a message that actually sounds like plain English (or even worse, bad English), it's usually a fake, trying to get you to click or install something. However, the fact it just asks you to wait a minute is strange. Does the message come from any antivirus software that you have installed (and know you have installed?). Other than some exceptionally intelligent antivirus software, I can't think of anything that would give you that message; your broadband provider most probably wouldn't. 9 times out of 10, any such warning is usually a fake. If you can post a screenshot of that warning message somehow (making sure there's no personal data), someone can probably tell you if it's real or not. A digital camera/cameraphone is handy for these things. [ BTW - there's been a huge upsurge in the UK of overseas call centers phoning people at home out of the blue, claiming they're from Microsoft/McAfee/your bank/whoever, and asking you to install protection software on your computer. All these are fake, but 10/10 for effort to them! ] Maybe ask your IT whizz mate to take a look :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest37336 Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Hmm.. If you ever see a message that actually sounds like plain English (or even worse, bad English), it's usually a fake, trying to get you to click or install something. However, the fact it just asks you to wait a minute is strange. Does the message come from any antivirus software that you have installed (and know you have installed?). Other than some exceptionally intelligent antivirus software, I can't think of anything that would give you that message; your broadband provider most probably wouldn't. 9 times out of 10, any such warning is usually a fake. If you can post a screenshot of that warning message somehow (making sure there's no personal data), someone can probably tell you if it's real or not. A digital camera/cameraphone is handy for these things. [ BTW - there's been a huge upsurge in the UK of overseas call centers phoning people at home out of the blue, claiming they're from Microsoft/McAfee/your bank/whoever, and asking you to install protection software on your computer. All these are fake, but 10/10 for effort to them! ] Maybe ask your IT whizz mate to take a look :-) Hi Desreb. I contacted Apple via email this morning and as normal very quick in getting back to me, and according to them this is a common message to be seen at times. Just wanted to make sure from ALL that I was doing right. Virgin who we are with will come back to me later, but in the meantime thank your advice, it amazing what you can pick up from a simple question,:notworthy:. Now if I suddenly go off line you will know that someone has hacked into my system and jfjliewiror kjkjkwl jeeikjelkprp kksdhjhfkj kwjeu jueiowo3pr kejekrmm kjktjrkjrlelkrle, ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................:biglaugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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