Well I guess I got tought a lesson about firewalls and tring to run a server.
Luckly my first link in my crappy defence was a linksys router so it appears, on the surface anyhow..., that no damage was done to my system but I suppose that there could be some inpending doom that awaits me. So far I've fonud nothing in the system except for 2 files
one was ".plugin140.trace" and the other was named simply "~"
I have deleted them but who knows, being the amature that I am there could be something lieing in wait.
Adware pro hasn't found anything nor has McAfee but we all know that thoes things are unreliable.
At this point it seems that the major damage is the router itself.
Not sure if I can recover it.
It seems to have a new IP address that is someing like 169.255.(can't remember).60
All I know is that I have tried several times to do a manual reset and nothing happends. It will not go back to factory defaults.
I've set it aside for now and I will try it again later but my bet is that the clever little devil has runined it for me.
What is troublesome somewhat, is that I have only posted on this site here, lately, about trying to set up my network.
I dunno, don't mean to imply that its a member I know that there are many ways to fine me other than this site and that even if it was it could have been someone unknown so please don't miss judge my coment here. I have no idea who or what did it, I'll leave it at that.
If any one has an idea of how I can recover the router I would appreacieate it as I was only borrowing the router, it belonged to my mom.
Thanks,
"g"