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Verizon DSL Update
Hi 98 Guy,
Thank you and others for your responses and information. John On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:23:07 -0500, in microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion you wrote: wrote: Do you recommend I change the defaults Administrator, "admin" and Password, "password", used to access the modem's internal settings, to something else? Most people here will respond and say yes, because they're anal old pharts. I'm ambivalent about changing the password. For one thing, it's only accessible from the LAN side (ie - your side of the modem) not the WAN side (that's the side facing the internet). Now there might be some settings that make the modem's setup menus available from the WAN side, but those can be (AND SHOULD BE) disabled. I don't know what the default is for your modem. There is one other esoteric reason for changing the password. There have been theories that some malware will attempt to access your modem / router to make changes (probably open certain ports). This malware would try the various standard default user-names and passwords. But that's the theory. In reality, I don't think there's ever been any malware in circulation that actually does this. This may prevent Verizon from access to the modem(?), No. Verizon will access the modem using a "virtual circuit" - something that you modem has turned on by default. Only the ISP can use a virtual circuit to talk to your modem. ISP's don't access modems via the web-based interface that you (the customer) use to configure the modem. About the only thing that telco's do with this access is to upload new firmware to the modem. You really can't stop this - even if you go to great pains to physically disconnect the modem from the phone line all the time except when you're on-line. Your modem will eventually get updated if they want it to be updated. but also may prevent others access to the modem's "internal" via the internet? Again, like I said above, there is a setting for that, and I wouldn't be surprised if WAN access to the modem's setup menu is permenantly disabled with no menu option to enable it. |
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