Note that *stumbler will, by default, show all of the SSIDs in
the traffic. There's an option to only see the ones that are
being advertised.

What you're seeing is (or was, when *I* saw it here) clients
sending out requests looking for that SSID. Unless somebody offers
to honour those requests, they're harmless.

David Gillett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken S [mailto:ken.securitylist (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:38 PM
> To: security-basics (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
> Subject: Security issue? Free Public WiFi Ad Hoc network broadcast
>
> Recently, I noticed an Ad Hoc network broadcast at my company
> called "Free Public WiFi". I thought that was pretty weird,
> so I used MiniStumbler to try to find it. Unfortunately, I
> couldn't easily tell which laptop it was. After a day or
> two, it went away.
>
> Yesterday, I was at a different building (miles away) and saw
> the same thing, except MiniStumbler reported a different MAC
> for the 2nd instance. I saw a thread on Tek-Tips on the same
> topic, but no one had an answer.
>
> Any thoughts? Do I have some compromised machines on my network?
>
> Thanks in advance for your insights.
>
> Ken
>
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