Check Your Router and Make Sure It’s Hacker-free
You’re doing everything right – using good security software, a strong Wi-Fi network password so you’re safe, right. Well– most likely.
Hackers are nothing if not innovative and they can break into a router using what’s known as DNS-hijacking. And if your router is compromised, so are all the devices connected by it. And let’s be honest – the chances that your router has been compromised are quite slim. But, since it takes only a few seconds to make sure, we’re going to provide you with a link to a website where you can check your router to be sure it hasn’t been hijacked.
Before we do that, again we want to make sure you understand that it is very unlikely your router has been compromised – our motto is always to present things in an honest, non-scary way. We don’t like tech sites that scare people to get viewers/readers.
So, take a few seconds to make sure your router is clean and uncompromised; we’re pretty sure you’ll find that is.
Check your router by going to this site and clicking the “Check your router” button.
Above are my results. You will notice that my ISP and DNS say “Google”.. I use Spectrum as my ISP but you’d never know it. That’s because I use Google’s Public DNS servers.
Mine is fine..no issues found.
Thank you for the quick way to check if our routers have been hacked.
Hi TC, I tried to do the check my router but nothing happened. I clicked the “Check My Router” and the “View the Results” but was never able to get my Browser checked.
Any thoughts?
Tony
Tony, if there are no problems all you see is a thin green line with a note that no problems were found. It’s easy to miss.
Hi TC, I went to the site you posted. When I clicked “Check your Router”, the site came up but also a box saying that the site has cookies.
I tried just clicking the “Check your Router” and I did not get results, but they wanted me to create an Account. Not sure if this was something I had to do to get the results.
My question is, do I have to make an account with them? I copied the the url to show you what it says.
https://www.f-secure.com/us-en/home/free-tools/router-checker#
You don’t need to create an account. Every site uses cookies. You need to accept cookies if you want to check your router.
fantastic info, no issues found
Hi and thanks for the info. My check says all is well 🙂