Hey guys...im getting packets from NOAA..help?

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MzrSol

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Hey there guys...i am really confused and worried that something is going down and i have no idea why this is happening or how to stop it. I came home and turned on my pc and hit the net like always and was just sitting at the front page of neogaf minding my own business when i noticed that the activity light on my speedstream was blinking in a pattern. Now, correct me if im wrong but if you are not doing anything active like clicking on links and or downloading stuff, the activity light should not be blinking much less blinking in patterns, right?

So, i did what i thought was the smart thing to do, i turned off my modem and then turned it back on but lo and behold the blinking activity light was still going at it in a pattern and this was while i was sitting at my desktop with IE not open nor anything else like msn. I even killed auto updaters just to make sure it wasnt that. Then i went into the windows firewall log and started pouring through it and noticed one single ip address over and over and over again, 75.21.193.40. Now if you look in google only one thing comes up and that is the NOAA website and when i clicked on it, all it had on their was this huge spreadsheet of numbers and such that i had no idea what it meant, so i clicked out of that page fearing i was setting myself up for disaster.

Can anyone help me understand why the NOAA website is sending me packets? Is this even remotely normal?
 
What does NOAA mean?

Anyways the ip address you mentioned 75.21.193.40 is actually the IP of a adsl customer on sbcglobal (maybe even you). Not sure where you got the other info from
 
How can that ip be mine? That IP links to the NOAA.GOV website..The NOAA is the NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION. Why would a SBC IP link to the NOAA.GOV website?
 
That IP is not NOAA, not sure where you're getting that from. ARIN says it belongs to AT&T/SBC and nslookup shows it to be a residential DSL line out of Chicago.


nslookup 75.21.193.40

Server: firewall.home.local
Address: 192.168.1.1

Name: adsl-75-21-193-40.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net
Address: 75.21.193.40
 
Yeah..ok..why do i get a link to noaa then when i put it in google? pretty odd. anyways, guess that mystery is solved and im just stupid.
 
you should probably run all the antivirus and spyware programs out there, sounds like a network virus, mite want to disconnect from the intrawebs.
 
MzrSol said:
Now, correct me if im wrong but if you are not doing anything active like clicking on links and or downloading stuff, the activity light should not be blinking much less blinking in patterns, right?
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Yeah, you would normally think it works that way.

My comcast modem usually has activity, even though nothing is done on the inside. I actually ran wireshark in it a few years ago since I was curious. It turns out that they like to arp the living hell out of their network.
 
Are you running a router or firewall? If not get one ASAP.

Plugging directly from your modem to a computer is bad bad bad.
 
You mentioned IE, i would also suggest NOT using that... ever. [H] member still using IE? Be smart, lol.

Anyways, you could call you're ISP and have them renew you're IP. Can't hurt.
 
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