If someone is using my wireless internet on their own

[ejwilli]

computer, can their sites visited show up in my history? Because I recently clicked on the hisory tab and it brought up a bunch of websites I didn't visit.

[wired076]

no. The history on your computer only displays the history for your computer it has no means of displaying websites someone else has viewed unless they have used your computer.

By the way is your wireless network encrypted?

[Kaisonic]

Yeah, your web browser history will only show sites that that specific browser and computer have visited. And also, you should probably encrypt your wireless network - a lot of people don't bother to, but then anyone could connect to your network and see anything you input into a webpage (credit cards, SSNs, passwords, etc.) It's very easy to encrypt your wireless connection - just go to the administration page for your router, find WEP encryption, make up a key, put it in, and then put the key in every computer you want connected to the network.

[bizzard]

Yeah I too agree with the above replies. Only sites visited from your system will be shown in your browser history.

Check whether your system is affected with some spyware. May be they are using your browser to send data to any remote computer.

If you have doubt that someone else is using your connection, there may be options in the service provider site to check the time you connected with net and the band width used.
Here in India, with a dial up connection itself, we have such options.

[wired076]

Make sure you encrypt your wireless network either through an WEP or WAP key as well as or use MAC addressing instead.

How are you going with this??

Has your problem been fixed as yet or is it still a problem?

[Spartan3]

not, its just from your computer. and also get it encrypted or else they can mess with your stuff and unless they are payin you, why should they get free internet

[vsnfsn]

i've been having the same problem yeah I have changed it to WEP and now I can use my computer lag-free from other users who are trying to access my internet.

[Doomed]

WEP is better than nothing, but it is terribly insecure and will only prevent basic intruders from gaining access (or accidentally connecting to your network thanks to windows).

WEP can be cracked in less than 2 minutes using readily avaliable software, so in order to properly secure your network, you should be using as a minimum WPA and ideally WPA2. If you use WPA with a strong password, you should be safe.

MAC Address filtering is another thing that, while is a slight deterance, it isn't difficult to spoof a MAC address to bypass this, so your best bet is to secure your network with either WPA or WPA2.

[deuce5]

no, sounds like some one got access to your pc. or you clicked on some double click ad banners. oe or the other.change the login password to your computer. if you got some kids, that may be it as well. i notice porn sites in my browser and i found out it was someone in the house who i never seen use the cpu

[joseph0829]

basically the answer is no, unless someone is using your computer and take note it doesn't anything related to the network you are using yeah its true to provide WEP on your wireless but the site you've seen on your browsers are not the sites that other connected computer are visiting.