Trying to find owner of a wifi network

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I've currently been accused of hogging bandwith on my townhome's wifi network by one of my roommates, even though my Mac Mini is on a wired connection, and my Mini is not turned on when the accusation is made.

However, I've noticed on my iPhone 4S a network name showing up in my network list as Virus Infected Wifi. That network is password protected, and I am unable to connect to it. This network shows up on my iPhone, as well as my Mac Mini when I put it on the wireless network, but not on my iPad 2. How can I determine who owns that network, so I can ask them to check their router for a possible infection? I have tried Fing to track down that net, but Fing won't see anything outside the local network.

2 of my housemates have iPhones, but they haven't said anything to me about this virus infected network. The third housemate has an Android phone, but is seldom home, except for very late at night.

You mentioned ordinary wifi scanner informational apps, but you're looking for network analysis tools on the scale of operating systems. Look into Fedora Security Spin or Kali Linux, but if you decide to try them, keep your legal wits about you.

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People can give the network they use a customized name, so that's probably all that is, and not actually infected. The name "Virus infected wi-fi" is probably just to scare people into avoiding the temptation to use or hack into using that network.

You need to ask the question of is it worth the trouble of tracing the owner of the network, on being traced their reaction might be

1. Laugh and thank you for your interest
2. Think their are being stalked by a computer werido and call the police

or something in between, I can not predict what their reaction will be so it is likely to be best not to find out the hard way

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I can tell you with (almost) absolute certainty, they named their Wireless Network that, partially as a joke, and partially to say "dont use my wifi."

I know plenty of people who have named theirs things like "Click here for a virus" and so forth.

Turns out the owner of that network is one of my housemates. He named his iPhone 5 this when he uses it as a hotspot. He named it that way to convince people NOT to connect to this hotspot.

most modern routers allow you to change the network name (SSID) to whatever you want . It is not a virus