Comments on: Wireless network “appears compromised”

By: sheri3466

sheri3466 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:10:55 +0000

Hi, a wee update, I changed my router, and since I’ve gone to O2 I got a new router which has better encryption ie. AES (WEP2). No problems ever since. I now love my new Macbook Pro!

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:09:02 +0000

In my case, the problem went away after I tweaked the settings of my airport software and upgraded the system software.

I use neither a dlink nor a linksys router. This problem has been widely reported in mac sites and indeed appears to have been a bug in the wireless software.

By: Andres

Andres — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:30:13 +0000

Is it remotely possible that someone IS actually trying to hack in? (I’m in Manhattan and can see more than 50 networks from my apartment!) The way your hacker neighbor will try to get in, is by issuing a command that confuses the wireless router and forces all connections to drop. They then try to come back up and during this process, the hacker listens to the exhange of info from the Access point to the computers. They then run decryption on these hashes and eventually get your WAP2 key. It is just a matter of time.
Mac is smsrt and know this, so it won’t let you reconnect during the period when the hacker is listening to the reconnect.

To all those who have this problem, use a wireless scanning tool such as iStumbler and look for any ad-hoc networks. by just walking around your building and looking at signal levels, you ill find who your nasty neighbor is and hopefully get back to him!!!
Remember that if you get this error every 4 minutes, it could very well be a robot set to to try every 4 minutes until they hack in, not necessarily a crapy netgear router!!!

By: sheri3466

sheri3466 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:12:38 +0000

Hi All, I’m having the same problem on an Orange wireless router. Unfortunately, I’m a complete novice at changing settings – can anyone tell me how I change to AES? Any & all helpful suggestions would be much appreciated.

By: HC

HC — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:35:42 +0000

This issue first appeared when I was using a slingbox (streaming video)
switching to AES resolved it for me. Linksys HR200 + MacBook 10.5.6
Thanks

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:30:02 +0000

I had this problem in spades whenever more than one computer was on the wireless network (Motorola SBG900/Comcast). The problem went away by switching to AES, thanks all!

By: panqihf

panqihf — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:05:50 +0000

I was having the problem while using a Linksys WRT54Gv8 with DD-WRT installed. It would show up most often while using Skype. Switching from TKIP to AES solved the problem immediately

By: James

James — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:51:45 +0000

This message is not bogus but has nothung to do with the network beeing compromised but rather a problem with the wireless router you are using and OS X. It occurrs with dlink and linksys routers but more so with Linksys. Neithe Apple or the roter companies have addressed this issue althoug its been around along time. There have messages on various forums dating back overa year to Tiger 10.4.4 and now Leopard. I recenly upgraded from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 and started having this error message appear every three or four minuted. Very annoying. Already using WAP2 on my Lynksys router. Disablling VP4 or VPS didn’t work nor did changing from AES to TKIP as suggested previously. Swithching off the Airport and going to keychainacess and making sure the box for the network I was using and using the repair function then rebooting and turning Airport back on again did clear up the problem immediately. If you can’t solve the problem using one of the methods mentioned, just park the message out of site while you work and your internet will work just fine.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:37:58 +0000

I have the same, persistent problem with this bogus message rendering my wireless connectivity useless. Mac OS X 10.5.5, latest model MacBook (November 2008), WPA encryption.

By: Acai Berry

Acai Berry — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:22:38 +0000

wep keys are easy to break
“I usually hear only good things about Mac so I’m happy now that I have a PC since i don’t get this message. I do want Mac thou :)”

PC dont care if someone breaks in your wireless network