Hey all-

I have windoze vista and having issues w/netstumbler on detecting a compatible network adapter.  Is there another program that you would recommend that is close to netstumbler or better?

El33tsamurai - HAHAHA, love it!  I will take your advice boss! Thank you.

packet.Wire - Excellent.  I have a couple PC's I can play with.  Will do some research and see how it goes.  Thank you!

lorddicranius - Thank you for that!!!

Time to rake the net!!

A friend of mine was complaining about how he thinks somebody is tapped into his Wi-Fi.  I found out after looking into it, that he's using WEP...that's sad in itself.  Secondary he's got the default admin/password on his router admin page, not so smart, but not surprising.

When I logged into his router admin, I noticed several PC's named the same as his...I guess masking them on first glance?? Obviously the MAC addresses were different.  So I assume he is getting tapped for free Wi-Fi, but it got me to thinking:

1) What would you do to mask yourself in this scenario?
2) Was naming the PC the same as his an attempt to mask?

I'm new in this type of arena and now I'm interested like crazy and would love to put myself in their shoes to see the angle...like reverse engineering.  Let me know how you would cover your tracks or post links referencing this scene.

Thank you all in advance!!

Thank for the info to all!

Joshsevo-  Is there anyway to mask that?  I mean can it look like a complete crash/erase? From some program that took over and ran an erase? Another question - Should I also perform a wipe/dump on the memory to get rid of my history? I'm trying to have everything cleaned w/o trace?  I appreciate the feedback!!!

All-

I have two PC's setup and I'm trying to dump one of the hard-drives to the point where there is no trace of how it was dumped and NO reverse engineering can be done to determine the cause. Is there a method? If so, would I also have to dump/clear the memory?

Thank you in advance!

chrisj- thank you for the response, good to hear!

cd1zz - this looks like a good read and greatly appreciate the link.  Looks like BT5 will cover quite a bit in pre-loaded drivers, but blacklisting some others (older).  I'll be slow to transition to 5, but it's good to hear.

I can already tell this forum/website rocks!  everyone seems professional and willing to help the newbs (hello!)

Thank you again!

All-

I have a choice of Alfa AWUS036H 1000mW or Alfa AWUS036NH 2000mW WiFi adapter and was wondering what would be the ideal choice here?  I've read somewhere that the chipset on the 2000 was not supported for injection...True? does anyone have any experience with these?

Also, I have the Netgear Wg111v3 Usb Wifi adapter and it works fine on BT4 (installed) but not on BT4 VM virtualbox...Am I missing something?

Thanks to all in advance.