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Originally Posted by Rokketboy
Just to make you feel better Jen, I have been off the air for the last 4 days. I got a lovely little virus that basically rendered my Router/Modem inoperable. I was able to access Google and thats it 
It has taken me 3 days to finally discover what the problem was. The virus attacks the firmware somehow and screws things up in a big way.
In the meantime I did 2 re-installs, got a new hardrive and had a 20 minute conversation with Sanjay...I mean Bob from Mumbai via Telstra. Fantastic few days.  |
It's probably a Netcomm NB5 right? Known issue. Netcomm Australia were unaware of the issue, despite it being publically known, until I made them aware of it. Because the Netcomm NB5 uses a Linux distibution named "busybox", it has WGET installed by default. At least on earlier versions. The bot that attacks these modems uses wget to download a compromised binary to the modem, unpacks it and that does the bit. In order to tell if your Netcomm NB5 modem is affected, see if you can telnet to it. Unless you've turned telnet off in the modem config, or changed the username/password, you should, by default, be able to telnet to the modem with the username/password admin/admin. If it won't let you, reboot the modem. If you can telnet to it after that, your modem was infected. To fix it, simply change the default password to something other than admin, and upgrade the firmware (
http://www.netcomm.com.au/support).
I work in the industry ;-)
Dave