Linksys WRT54GS, A Trojan Horse In Disguise?
Linksys Virus?
After four years of dedicated servitude my wireless router decided to go on a permanent vacation with little or no warning. Considering I have a degree in IT you would think that I would have a spare router (as almost all good geeks do), a plan perhaps or at the very least an extra cat-6 cable to run straight into the cable modem that was longer than three feet in length.
Unfortunately, all I had was a busted router.
A few hours later I find myself wandering through a local PC store looking at routers. Since my home office & network is pretty straightforward I decided to pick up a halfway decent Linksys WRT54GS for roughly $80 dollars. Upon returning home I swapped my permanently defunct router out for my new Linksys and popped the CD into my PC to install the drivers and what not.
Suddenly my anti-virus/stop evil doers software by Nod32 by Eset went crazy. Not a good start.
I started at my monitor in disbelief. Linksys is a trusted company, as is its parent company Cisco. Yet here was a brand new CD, fresh from the factory that was riddled with viruses. I had to boot into safe mode and remove them one by one…They weren’t the worst viruses I have seen, random weak Trojans for the most part, but damn aggravating none the less.
I need to call Linksys to let them know that somehow some of their install CD’s have been corrupted. However I thought I would blog about it first. So a word to the wise, scan everything you put into your laptop or PC these days, no matter where it came from.
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Chuck | May 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
ESET has alwasy been my anti-virus of choice. Great program and it’s not as bloated as some of the other programs that are out there.