Re: Anybody know IP 192.168.1.255.137?

Peter Gordon wrote:

I'm running WinXPSP2.
I recently updated my security and now I keep getting
a message saying that my computer is trying to contact
192.168.1.255.137


I guess you mean 192.168.1.255:137. And the 137 obviously is not meant as an IP protocol number, but a TCP or UDP port.

I keep telling it to block the message and to remember
the answer, but it keeps recurring.


What exactly is "it"?

IP Address locator and the ARIN whois database are not very
informative.


Sure they aren't. How could they? They're not supposed to hold any information why "it" (whatever you mean) keeps telling you about a local broadcast of NetBIOS messages despite you having turned it off.

I have done complete system scans and the report says that
my system is clean.

And this changes exactly what about "it" telling you wrong stuff?
.

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