Re: Need some advice

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yes, they can see everything you do. Further, they can hijack sessions and
perform MITM attacks on you.

if your wireless adapter works in promiscuous mode, you can use ethereal to
watch your connection for a while and then use its statistics window to see
who the hogs are. http://www.ethereal.com/ you look under conversations,
IPv4

depending on your configuration, you may be able to look at your router logs
or plug in via Ethernet and take a look.

Hope that helps,

--
Mark Gamache
Certified Security Solutions
http://www.css-security.com



"AGB" <andyglbl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1121346678.201220.251600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> hi all,
>
> I am a programmer with almost no good networking experience. I want to
> do a couple of things, first, i want to see who is using up my
> bandwidth on my personal wireless. Since I don't have it secured right
> now I would like to see who is on it. Also, out of curiousity, if
> someone else is on my wireless, can they easily view the sites that I
> visit?
>
> Thanks
>
> Anders
>


.



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