Well, it’s always been my advice to change your router’s password. Even at your home network. You might be wondering why? No one wants to take over your network, right? Well, this article points out how a malicious variant of a popular and wide-spread virus has found a way to hijack your router. What does this mean to you? It means they can redirect all of your traffic if they chose to. As in, say… redirect paypal.com to thei own paypal lookalike and get your password. Except you won’t be able to look in your browser’s address bar to see if you’re actually at paypal.com to detect it - because this hack makes your computer think it is actually at paypal.com. In any event, do whatever you can to change your router’s default password. I don’t know why the router manufacturers don’t force you to set a password after each time you set up - they thought they were safe I guess.
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