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Forum Discussion
Internet being hacked
I have the nighthawk xr1000 router with spectrum internet, is it likely that my internet could be hacked and how can I find out if it is or isn't. I ran a virus scan on my Mac and nothing showed up b...
I just get paranoid a lot and I my internet speeds are sometimes weird at night but I know it's prob due to congestion but I just want to make sure nothing is get hacked. I don't really have the money to buy netgear amor right now so I don't know any other ways to check. Is there like common issues that I could spot when a router gets hacked?
It's very hard to give an answer for that, it depends what kind of thing they're doing and in most cases, symptoms would likely present themselves on devices rather than the router itself. For example, PC appearing to be controlled without your input, viruses, dodgy software being downloaded etc.
Well the only thing that's happened was when I was playing this browser game called "basketball gm" and when I was playing it I got redirected to a obvious scam site but it got blocked my MacBook and I ran a virus scan on Malwarebytes but nothing showed up.
- That sounds like a normal website dodgy ad/redirect so I think you're safe, no need for concern!