Thanks for the thoughtful response Dave. I've also fought those fights with 17.2 but with 17.3 that is no longer an issue, thankfully.
There's all kinds of back-story with my wifi networks and my neighbors. But they were sponging off my wifi network. I tightened security as much as one can with non-enterprise routers, and that finally convinced them to call Comcrap to install cable Internet in their hovel.. So this issue I'm posting about is likely one of their script kiddie friends practicing packet injection, but I'm not too concerned. I really would love to get your opinion on this matter, however.
I'm rather curious about why the icon is the "wrong" one, per the screenshot.
I've always thought that my local machine has its own icon that is called by the OS when I go to view the list of available wifi networks. IOW, that icon is "fixed" and only the wifi network name would be a variable.
Ultimately, I know they got onto my wifi to some extent, I just wonder if they got into my machine. .. since they definitely changed the icon that should have been used in this situation.
Thanks in advance, Dave!
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