Re: servers in russia?
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Date: 08/25/04
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:46:46 -0700
I am a novice at all this so please forgive me if I am
asking about obvious things. I have set up my firewall to
ask my permission anytime an application on my system
seeks access to the web. The notices which pop-up suggest
that Windows Explorer is attempting to connect to
external servers. The IP addresses for the servers with
which it is attempting to communicate with are always the
same 2 addresses: one in Russia and one in Germany.
I am still unsure as to whether or not it is normal for a
file indexing program (which is how I would characterize
Windows Explorer) to need to check in with the mother
ship for updates etc. If it is, it would appear that the
Windows Explorer program has been corrupted and it no
longer remembers the correct IP address with which it
needs to communicate. The correct IP address has been
replaced by these bogus IP addresses in Russia and
Germany. My questionss therefore are:
a)What do I need to do to Windows Exlorer to delete these
bogus IP addresses and
b)How do I restore the correct IP address in WE so that
it can find the correct server with which to communicate?
>-----Original Message-----
>why do you think its microsoft trying to access you?
you are most likely
>seeing port scans from virus infected machines looking
for open machines to
>infect. they would be trying various ports that would
normally be used by
>windows explorer to share files. the best action is to
turn off
>notifications of junk like that, your firewall is doing
its job, there is
>really no reason for you to listen to it bragging about
it.
>
>"chiefjay" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:d3e501c48ab9$c9a36cd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> I am not sure if i am posting to the correct newsgroup,
>> but here goes. When I start my computer and the
firewall
>> is activated, my firewall ("zero-knowledge Freedom")is
>> programmed to ask me whether to accept or deny access
to
>> my computer from outside servers that are ostensibly
>> related to various software programs. One of the
programs
>> for which i receive a message is Windows Explorer. What
>> seems odd to me is that the IP address of the remote
>> server is alternatively in Russia and berlin germany.
>> Does Microsoft really host some of its stuff on servers
>> in Russia and germany. For Russia, the host name is
>> listed as 62.118.251.84 and the destination IP address
>> is : v20-u.valuehost.ru
>> For Berlin, the Host name is 141.45.186.7 and the
>> destination IP is: dozenten.f1.fhtw-berlin-de
>> Does this seem odd or am I getting paranoid?
>> If this is a spoof, how do I stop their server from
>> attempting to access my system?
>>
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