wireless safety question

kymrob

new to wireless so may sound a silly question!
daughter just had a pop up message saying

bloodhound tried to access your computer
computer secure

does this mean some one tried to use our internet connection and failed?
never heard of bloodhound?
a virus or what else
any help

sleep2much

It sounds like a norton thing, http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2000-121911-5753-99&tabid=2

Reluctant_spender

Have a look here - http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/bloodhound.html

If you are running Nortons, then it could be trying to tell you that it has found something. This is not as bad as it sounds because at least it told you.

kymrob

did a scan but found nothing
does it have anything to do with being wireless?

ukdutypaid

kymrob wrote: »

new to wireless so may sound a silly question!
daughter just had a pop up message saying

bloodhound tried to access your computer
computer secure

does this mean some one tried to use our internet connection and failed?
never heard of bloodhound?
a virus or what else
any help

It sounds like you're using Norton anti virus software, from Symantec.
If you've never had this warning before and have only just received it after installing software for you WiFi then, it's an unrecognised file on your pc, which Norton is identifying.
It should give you the path to where the file lives. If it lives in your wireless software directory then I'd say you're safe.
Needless to say you should put some security on your wifi network (out of the box they usually have nothing on them. Although BT homehub does by default).
The ideal is
- non broadcast SSDI
- WPA, rather than WEP (pref WPA2, if your wireless AP/router supports it. Most but the very newest do not, although it my be available as firmware. Make sure you have factory reset on available on your AP, before you attempt any firmware upgrade though!)
- AES not TKIP
- set own IP range
- ASCII not a HEX key...
Hope that's clear... You may need a dweeb to help you there, but look at the help files of the manufacturer or your wireless AP. Or phone up the people you got it from and make it their problem..

So two things.... Norton and wifi......
Related/unrelated to each other...
Bloodhound, is a name given to file that Norton hasn't heard of before. Usually very low risk, but seeing where it lives on your pc will usually set your mind at rest..
For more info see..
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2002-070318-2244-99&tabid=1

Reluctant_spender

Not sure - I would be inclined to run an online anti virus check just to make sure you are clear.

Kaspersky is very good as it does not remove anything thereby reducing any mistakes - http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner