hahaha yes so nice that I'd like to get my hands on them
I will make sure to ring my local ISP (slingshot.co.nz) and run through the router settings with them
- from what I can gather all seems okay on the sheets, but there is a few things there that I dont understand, so will be a good exercise to get to know my gateway a bit better.
At the time I was using a Netgear switch and I had I think it was four computers running at once as stand-alone units (no software LAN setup as such)
Do you think it possible for the malware to infect the switch and so the other computers under these condition? myself I think maybe yes
like, I think the switch has an individual ARP for each computer linking it to the router, I guess - and then on to the internet
I suppose if the infection creeps outward from one computer to the router, then each computer on the other side of the switch will also come under threat
- even tho there is no real intranet as such, directly linking them all together (so each has its own ARP list rather than sharing one)
I'm not using the switch at the moment because its too noisy - and also I've put some of my LAN ideas to one side for the moment
I think maybe look at some protection at the router location - I may have been lucky not to get a fully blown breakout on all four computers
bad enough as it was anyway - I had to reset the Services this morning as they were all reading 'disabled'
in fact lots of little bits and pieces to tidy up amongst the tools and utilities - still, a nice learning curve in this little experience