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| Thread ID: 101921 | 2009-07-31 19:53:00 | "Ghost" wireless access points | argus (366) | Press F1 |
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| 796972 | 2009-08-07 17:49:00 | If it's not affecting your own secure wireless why worry. Not necessarily worried; just curious. There is a nagging doubt, I suppose, that (1) whatever security I put in place - currently WPA with MAC filtering - there will be someone out there who will find a way through; and (2) as mentioned above, the fact that these access points still show up when the wireless card is turned off. That suggest that whoever is doing this (if it is a third party up to no good) has found a way of keeping the wireless card operational for their own access points when I think it's turned off; and that suggests they are very knowledgeable (enough to find a way through any faulty setup in my security: See 1). This started as curiosity (with the assumption that there was a simple answer implying no attempt to gain access to my wireless network) but more I think about it and read the answers (and the puzzlement) here, the more I worried I get :-) |
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| 796973 | 2009-08-07 21:32:00 | Not necessarily worried; just curious. There is a nagging doubt, I suppose, that (1) whatever security I put in place - currently WPA with MAC filtering - there will be someone out there who will find a way through; and (2) as mentioned above, the fact that these access points still show up when the wireless card is turned off. That suggest that whoever is doing this (if it is a third party up to no good) has found a way of keeping the wireless card operational for their own access points when I think it's turned off; and that suggests they are very knowledgeable (enough to find a way through any faulty setup in my security: See 1). This started as curiosity (with the assumption that there was a simple answer implying no attempt to gain access to my wireless network) but more I think about it and read the answers (and the puzzlement) here, the more I worried I get :-) I very highly doubt it. If a wireless card is physically turned off, you cannot remotely turn it on! What happens when you enter device manager, then disable or uninstall the wireless card? |
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