said by Frodo:Then I guess your router is broke. Not old, but broke. If you're concerned about this UPnP thing, then you'll have to get a new one.
Maybe not. I just read the Defense Code paper. My router does not have a Broadcom chip. The chip is a Kendin Ks8695. I doubt it is vulnerable. Linksy should list which ones of theirs are vulnerable. I doubt that any Linksy routers so old that DD-WRT firmware cannot be made to work on them are vulnerable.
On an ironic note, I now remember that it was my activating UPnP in the router that caused the nasty bug to trigger that set a random password. I stumbled on the threads at Linksy just now and decided to again try the passwords users say are what the router sets when it sets a "random" one (and that worked for some users but not others). They didn't work on Fx but I thought, what the heck, I'll try on IE as one has a character that evidently the browser adds...so I did that and IE popped a Security Warning that the Linksy User Name and Password would be transmitted as plain text