well,what i mean is my computer is infected with spyware and it’s connected to my router. ok? my mom is going to buy me a laptop because of the virus(it’s really bad! i can’t use the internet! all i can do is chat with my cousins on yahoo messenger when they are online!). can my virus infect my router? when i get my laptop i’m gonna connect my router to my laptop. i’m afraid its gonna infect my new laptop if the router’s infected. so these are my questions:
can a spyware virus infect my router?
if the router is infected then will it infect my new laptop?
those are my questions. can you help? thx for reading ppl! : )
oh and since that i said my computer’s internet doesnt work,i’m using my grandpa’s laptop. lol!
Nope not wouldn’t of thought so the router has no hard drive or memory to get infected, its the operating system that gets infected the router is separate from the OS.
Theres no need to buy a new laptop simply format your hard drive and reinstall Windows and it’ll be like new.
It is possible but unlikely it wouldn’t infect the router but if your router is set up a certain way it could jump from one machine to the next. You don’t have anything to worry about. If you want me to help you fix your current PC send me a email and I can help you.
No, at least not in the way that a computer gets infected. All a router does is send and direct traffic through networks to form larger networks.
However, I have heard of attacks that poison your DNS (which is when you enter the site name into the address bar and it turns it into your ip. To see DNS in action, open up the command prompt and enter in nslookup google.com. ) I forgot what the name of the attack is.
Mine looks like this:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\(my first name)>nslookup google.com
Server: (My Isp)
Address: (My Dns server the computer that translates the sites I enter into ip addresses)
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Addresses: 64.233.187.99
72.14.207.99
64.233.167.99
C:\Users\(my first name)>
Yes! Your router can have it’s settings changed by malware. This infection is fairly new and is still somewhat rare, but it does in fact exist. Especially if you do not have your router’s configuration page password protected. (You do have it passworded don’t you?)
"A new Trojan horse masquerading as a video "codec" required to view content on certain Web sites tries to change key settings on the victim’s Internet router so that all of the victim’s Web traffic is routed through servers controlled by the attackers…:
For full information, read this thread:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20631012-In-the-Wild-Zlob-Changing-Router-Settings-to-Hijack-DNS
You could probably reset your router and everything would be fine again, if the trojan changed settings.