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has the author, who appears to read hn and hopefully therefore this, considered that the reasons for the apparently automatic ban might be malware on the machin
by jesboat 15y ago
has the author, who appears to read hn and hopefully therefore this, considered that the reasons for the apparently automatic ban might be malware on the machine?
- Shenglong 15y agoYes I have. However, I don't frequent any dangerous sites much, and my computer it's terribly vulnerable. I've done full scans with MWB and AVG, and I've checked my data in/out rates.
- heyimfromreddit 15y agoI would assume your ban was related to "hacker" news.
- pak 15y agoTry hooking your computer up through a hub or something and use WireShark on your traffic. You never know on a Windows box. I've had deeply rootkitted machines that didn't get picked up by any scans. In any case, I'd recommend against changing your MAC address because when you do get a hold of the network admins they may be rather disgruntled that you're violating network policy (almost any university that registers MACs prohibits MAC spoofing, otherwise you could just use the MAC of somebody that you saw on a different subnet).