Dangerous Servers on Home Machines

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I don't know how else to put this warning out but someone, whose ISP appears to be in Virginia, is running a webserver on their machine. When I look at my logs, I can see the ip address of the router and that there is a small local network. Evil types could use the available info to break into such a server and hijack it for nefarious purposes.

What's happening is that the server is making downloaded BC pages available to machines on the local network and my page counter software is sending the info to my logs over the wider internet. As a guess, at least one machine on the local net is accessing the router by a wireless connection.

Just a warning. The server is not online all the time or is behind a firewall, so the risk may be low. I'm going to lock my page count logs so no one else can get at this info.

- Erin