Re: Someone using my newsgroup account

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@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1154114164.323337.187910@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
> 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?
>