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[Dr. Johbson]

Being the non-tech person I am, I have no idea if I am accessing these people's random drives because *they* do not have security, or if they are accessing *my*shared networks because I don't have security.

I checked my router, and I do believe I have Wireless security, Some WEM or some sort of Encryption or something. Like I said, I know very little about computers.

And I don't even know what to google, so here I am, asking you guys again for help.
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[Cthulhu]

Maybe some people are leeching your wireless connection.

You could put stuff in their shared folders, like obscene images.

[Dr. Johbson]

Well, at the moment, besides adding stuff, all I could do would be to delete their save files, or their game cracks. Whoever is stealing/not stealing my wireless network, they have a good taste in games.

I was thinking of adding games just to mess them up.

[Fooj]

The only reason to leech a connection is to do illegal or obscene things.

And guess who it looks like is doing those things? Worst case scenario you are sued or fined an obscene amount of money, best case scenario your ISP has evidence of an embarrassing fetish or something.

Document what they do for a short time span. Your router, if you have logging turned on (They may have turned it off if your router has no password) will log their IP address, MAC address, and computer name. Report this violation, find the neighbor with the computer that fits, and get his ass incarcerated before the RIAA does the same to you.

What exactly do they have in their shared folder? Game cracks? Music torrents? Game torrents? Porn? Make sure you document everything. Use a physical video recording as those are harder to call fake than digital screen shots. You can either find the guy and blackmail him with legal action or actually call the hammer of justice down on him. Either way usually stops this sort of thing.

This is serious. The guy doing this can get you in legal trouble.

I was thinking of adding games just to mess them up.

Don't let him know you're on to him until you are ready to threaten him!

[winner]

People also leach because they're cheap. "only to do to do illegal or obscene things" is hyperbole.

[Fooj]

People also leach because they're cheap. "only to do to do illegal or obscene things" is hyperbole.

True, he could just be really cheap but the "game cracks" caught my eye. Usually associated with doing other illegal things.

So is he or is he doing something illegal? It is still important.

[Dr. Johbson]

I was only kidding about adding stuff, don't worry. My router does have a password, but logging is turned off, I don't think it was ever on. Is the default for logging on?

On one drive he has some game cracks, save files, patches, and one pirated copy of Dungeon Siege 2. Icewind Dale might have been pirated too, but I'm not sure. And that's the Phoenix network, the Bleh one has nothing in it at all. (Besides sample shared music, shared pics) Oh, yeah, one more thing, On Phoenix's drive, I found a file related to his STALKER saves, it says what kind of hardware he has in his computer. (Graphics cards, that kind of thing.

Besides that, I only want to fix the problem, I don't care about sending the guys to jail, I think the guys been connected for more than a month now anyway, when I was looking at something or another a while back, and it said there were two other sources accessing my network, which at the time, I thought was my PS3 and Xbox. If he's not already messed up my computer, I don't think he will be anytime soon.


ALSO- I just turned the log thing on, so now I have a log of incoming and outgoing..somethings, but I don't know what it means.  Should I post some pictures of that?

[Cthulhu]

The problem though is that if he's connecting on your router and The Man somehow finds out he's pirating stuff, they'll trace it back to you, and "Someone was using my connection" probably won't fly.

[Fooj]

Should I post some pictures of that?

Go ahead.

I believe logs can actually be used as evidence in court, so if someone comes knocking at your door about you pirating Dungeon Siege then you have evidence. Plus this thread about it.

A timestamped camcorder of the log is even better. On hand logs are notoriously easy to fake.

Go knock door to door with neighbors asking if one of their computer usernames is Phoenix and tell them to fuck off or you will take it to court and that you have been keeping tabs on their pirating, and have been logging him this entire time.

Keep watching Bleh for something illegal so you can scare him away later.

[Dr. Johbson]

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Ok, so, how can I prevent this from happening in the future/get these networks out of my network right now? Or do I really have to go door to door looking for some guy named Iwan and threaten him, to get him out, and then sit here with Bleh/PCHouston waiting for him to put something illegal in his documents folder?

[Blacken]

Turn on WPA or WPA2. Put a password on it. You're done.

No, not WEP. WEP is not security. Anyone can download Aircrack and break into a WEP network in maybe an hour or so of packet sniffing. It does it for you. WPA is crackable, but not by normal people and not without ridiculously powerful computers.

[Dr. Johbson]

Alrighty, thanks, very much, everyone. Lets hope that works.

Is there someway I can reboot the router, or something, so one would have to reconnect via my new password to access my network?

[Jookia]

I'm a bit late here, but my first suggestion would be to find the person and actually sort it out then play pirated games.
My second would be to set WPA2 protection, a long password with numbers and letters as they'll be bruteforcing instead of aircracing. Once done that, reboot your router. Another thing to do would be to set a password on your computer and disabled SharedDocs so they'd need both your username/password AND your WPA2 key.

That's about as secure as you can get. You can find how to do most the stuff mentioned via google if you're computer illerate.

[Dr. Johbson]

I have the great password, but how do I reboot my router? Do I just..Unplug it? I've accidently done that a few times in the past but it never asked me to log in again after that.

EDIT- Dur I are stupid nevermind  Also, more thanks

[Apostolic Nihilist]

He lives in Canada so he can't be prosecuted for piracy. Well, it's not that he "can't", but that he "won't.".

Personally I love leaving my network open and screwing with whoever connects to me.