How do I change the password of the website of my linksys router?

Okay so I have a password armed to the website of accessing my router information. I'm not talking about setting a password for the linksys router but the website for entering it. I wanted to change my password because somehow my son's hacked it. I still know the password I just want to know how to change it. Thanks. :)|||Thumbs up preventative advice/answer here...



If you have ADSL, like BT, where your router is connected to your phont line then i would advise against this as you will then be without internet, choose a time to do it when it will inconvenience u less, but your son more, as you will have to get in touch with BT etc or use the CD to run the setup wizard again, oh yea, make sure your son has done his homework before doing this so he is supper bored without the internet all weekend because internet customer services technical support are close all weekend/over a bank holiday weekend! hehe.



If you have a cable router that also plugs into a virgin modem for example then you can push the pin and it wil run with default settings, you may have to power down everything internet related and power up again for it to work, same as with ADSL too if u went that far.

BUT if your son was able to change the password, unfortunately he will probably know exactly how to do what i'm telling u already. So it's futile. But it is possible for someone anywhere in the world to hack the password and change it, some routers were designed with a flaw in their design, which meant an image (or anything) on any website can be used to compromise your router, WITHOUT a user clicking anything on the website! It's a 1 second, fairly short one line of computer code, that can make people with these old routers very miserable, since they rarely change the default password on their router. There are a lot of routers out there like this i'm afraid. So maybe your son could be innocent. I could do this to anyone from facebook, myspace, a google websearch, most websites with images or other documents that can display user submitted documents/images, it doesn't even have to show anything to be honest it could just say page load error 404 or anything and it would be able to change the router password from the default.|||to start off thats not a website, its ur router config page.

to change that u need to go in to that page. since u dont the what pass he changed it to then, do this: there is a deep button on the router take a pen to press it, u hold it for something like 60 sec and it resets everything back to factory, which means the pass also gets set to the default one stated on the sticker down the back. so now u can go into the router then set everything to make sure ur internet works then set the pass. perhaps this was what he did. so jsut tell him after u reset dont do this again. i mean its ur router not his tell him dont mess about with it.



btw u cant change the default one, regardless what u change it to, its u hold the reset button for requirement amount of seconds it gets back to the original one on the sticker.|||with the linksys cd but wouldnt advice you to do it cuz admin is easy to remember