I was scheduling some programs on my Genie and happened to get a look at the History list. There were several items which showed up both in the History list and also the My Programs list which I would have never scheduled or deleted in a hundred years. There are two other users at this point, and I am quite certain they wouldn't be watching any of those shows either, or deleting them in the middle of the night. On top of that the deleted list showed that I had deleted a couple items on MY machine (the host machine), which I had never scheduled to record. I was alone in the house by myself, in front of it with the History channel on, and taking a nap during the times they were deleted. That got me thinking:
There was a recent story where allegedly a Directv user's home WiFi network was compromised, and the Smart Search mechanism was targeted. I figure that my Genie might have been receiving stray external commands via internet, although I have never set up any means to control it (website or Ipad). I unplugged the wired internet connection from my Genie and so far, for a couple days anyhow, it looks like it has stopped. I am behind a wired/wireless router with firewall, and have the wireless capabilities of the Genie disabled. This is confirmed as the Restart feature won't work as long as the wire is unplugged.
So has anyone else had anything like this happen? It seems deliberate to some extent, as all the entries wereRated X TV-MA-S (even though I don't subscribe to anything in that range) and were time stamped as having been deleted by me and other Clients in our house in the middle of the night. It seems like the machines have to be powered up in order for this to take place. We have one Client which is almost always powered down that never makes it into those lists.
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There was a recent story where allegedly a Directv user's home WiFi network was compromised, and the Smart Search mechanism was targeted. I figure that my Genie might have been receiving stray external commands via internet, although I have never set up any means to control it (website or Ipad). I unplugged the wired internet connection from my Genie and so far, for a couple days anyhow, it looks like it has stopped. I am behind a wired/wireless router with firewall, and have the wireless capabilities of the Genie disabled. This is confirmed as the Restart feature won't work as long as the wire is unplugged.
So has anyone else had anything like this happen? It seems deliberate to some extent, as all the entries were
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