We were living in employer housing and had our router (protected with the password it came with)connected to their internet. One day we were fired for-
1. using 80gb of data a month.
2. their system blocked 2000 attempts at accessing porn in 19 days.
I am 100% convinced that it was not us. It happened on days and times when we were working and or the computer was off.
I don’t know how this could of happened, btw- I am the husband…I think I would know if I was blocked from accessing porn 2000 times. I think I would have stopped after a couple of times of being blocked.
The employers IT person said that the only possible explanation was that we were doing it. I know we weren’t so what other possibilities are there? I don’t really doubt their figures, I just know that the conclusion they came to is wrong! HELP!!!!
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Are There “viruses” Or Other Things That Will Try To Access Porn?
Posted on May 22, 2013.
There are viruses out there that will create zombies or “bots” out of your computers, any computer they can gain access to. Basically they use these computers to go to links, the links are from pay per click pornography ads – they collect the money from these ads, the porn companies think they’re getting clicks, and the process continues. Your IT person is woefully misinformed. You can google this, it’s pretty common. If I were you I’d find a few news stories about it and show them to your supervisor. If anyone should be fired it should be the IT person – he/she put an employee’s livelihood on the line based on nothing but hearsay.
There is a possibility that since the password was still the default password, someone could have connected to the router and used your wireless connection to view porn. Anytime a new router is purchased, the default admin username and password should be changed, along with the default name for the wireless connection and the password for the wireless connection. In regards to the computer being off, this will not make much of a difference if another computer is connected to your router. Your employer probably felt that since porn was accessed using that router, you are responsible although this type of thinking is unfair. Network monitoring software could be installed to view and analyze the traffic that is on the network, although I do not have a specific software name in mind. I remember a case that was sort of similar to this in that someone else used another individual’s wireless connection to view porn. This was child porn, and a neighbor had been harassing another neighbor and tried to frame this neighbor by accessing and viewing child porn using the harassment victim’s router. An investigation was opened, which involved the FBI, and the investigators were able to determine that the person accessing the child porn was the neighbor, and that the traffic was not initiated from within the home, but from outside the home. So, there is a way to analyze this type of traffic, but I’m not sure if there is free software that can do this for you. As for the IT person, I can’t believe that he had the nerve to just automatically point the finger at you for this. If the router was secured the way it was supposed to be, then this issue probably would not have happened. If you were going to be using your employer’s Internet connection, then it was the responsibility of your employer to secure the router. And yes, viruses can use your computer to access porn sites. As a previous poster stated, your computer can be part of a botnet, which is used to send spam to unsuspecting users, infect other computers, and access porn. I’m sorry this happened to you.
Who else has access to this router.? I wouldnt pay it until you see an itemized bill from the ISP. You only have there word on this. Someone could of hacked in but its unlikely for that much, the only possibility is you have a Virus but if you have made these attempts at access it would show up in your internet history.
80GB is a lot even if you were downloading movies all day everyday on bit torrents it would be hard to hit that figure, In this case I think there trying to hustle you.
The first thing to do is find a network monitor. On Mac OS systems, there’s Little Snitch, WIndows and Linux systems have a bunch of those as well. Find out, over a few hours, which sites are being accessed.
You can then record the activity, as evidence, and ask your network admin to block incoming and outgoing connections to those IP addresses.
Yes, there is malware that will connect to the Internet and do things without your knowledge. However, if you don’t protect your computer and allow those to get on there by your ignorance, you’re still responsible for it.
someone probably hacked you