F-Secure Router Checker is an online tool, that will scan the router settings of your Windows system and check if your DNS settings or Router have been hijacked or compromised.
How to check if your Router is hacked
F-Secure Router Checker
The F-Secure Router Checker is a free and instant way to see if your router has potentially been hijacked by criminals.
When you type www.thewindowsclub.com in your browser address bar, your computer looks up the IP address against this domain name and then contacts the server and requests it to load the web page,
DNS stands for Domain Name System, which helps a browser figure out a website’s IP address so that it can load on your computer. A DNS cache is a file on your or your ISP’s computer that contains a list of IP addresses of regularly used websites.
Since the DNS is important in rendering the correct web address, hackers and scammers try to compromise it for criminal activity. This is called DNS Cache Poisoning. When the DNS is poisoned, you can get redirected to malicious web pages instead of your legitimate site. Thus, they reroute your Internet traffic using “rogue DNS servers.”
F-Secure Router Checker will scan your computer and check if your DNS settings or Router have been compromised or hijacked. It will inform you if it detects poisoning.
To use this tool, visit this link and click on the Start now button. In a few seconds, you will be told if your Internet connection is safe or not.
Your DNS server’s IP address and your IP address will also be listed.
Read next:
- Check if rogue DNS Changer malware has changed your DNS settings.
- Flushing the Windows DNS Cache is a good way to clean up and reset your computer’s DNS cache.
