I thought I had a good grasp on internet security. I have Clam X AV which I run on all my machines. I have the following machines two windows 7 laptops. Running avast antivirus. Then two macs one a macbook 13 inch running Tiger and one Mac Mini running snow leopard. I have tried Sophos,kapersky and no infections found. I have been experiencing the worst symptoms and indications of a hacking attack. I have Verizon FIOS as my internet service provider and I was noticing severe loss and slow down in video quality of Verizon video on Demand services. Then just much slower upload and download speeds. It seemed to just clear itself up after I got a firewall on the Network you see though I was never able to successfully add the firewall to the network. I tried to add a Zyxel model USG50 I thought this firewall and intrusion detection detection unit was defective. It would not allow me to assign me IP addresses that were different than 192.168.1.1. Which is the Verizon Actiontec routers default. I assigned a static IP for the WAN that was applied ok and the problem comes to the Lan it will not let me change that IP address. My brother and I have tried a last resort hard reset multiple times. Then we took it back and got a USG 100 supposedly Enterprise class same exact problem. This time before attaching I want to a website called F-Secure and ran all their Virus scans. Still nothing there. The same effect. I am convinced that this is a rootkit on or something along those lines from all the Hak5 shows I have watched. I believe it's the router itself that's infected and infecting and controlling the other computers. It even turns on the webcam on my macbook once or twice. Where does one even begin with an infection like this. Please help me because this is just so insanely off the wall. I Thank All You Guys So Much In Advance :).
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Dear Hak 5 Community,
I thought I had a good grasp on internet security. I have Clam X AV which I run on all my machines. I have the following machines two windows 7 laptops. Running avast antivirus. Then two macs one a macbook 13 inch running Tiger and one Mac Mini running snow leopard. I have tried Sophos,kapersky and no infections found. I have been experiencing the worst symptoms and indications of a hacking attack. I have Verizon FIOS as my internet service provider and I was noticing severe loss and slow down in video quality of Verizon video on Demand services. Then just much slower upload and download speeds. It seemed to just clear itself up after I got a firewall on the Network you see though I was never able to successfully add the firewall to the network. I tried to add a Zyxel model USG50 I thought this firewall and intrusion detection detection unit was defective. It would not allow me to assign me IP addresses that were different than 192.168.1.1. Which is the Verizon Actiontec routers default. I assigned a static IP for the WAN that was applied ok and the problem comes to the Lan it will not let me change that IP address. My brother and I have tried a last resort hard reset multiple times. Then we took it back and got a USG 100 supposedly Enterprise class same exact problem. This time before attaching I want to a website called F-Secure and ran all their Virus scans. Still nothing there. The same effect. I am convinced that this is a rootkit on or something along those lines from all the Hak5 shows I have watched. I believe it's the router itself that's infected and infecting and controlling the other computers. It even turns on the webcam on my macbook once or twice. Where does one even begin with an infection like this. Please help me because this is just so insanely off the wall. I Thank All You Guys So Much In Advance :).