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Lorne
I do not know if this is a question for this group but if it is not please
advise me where to go.
I have a home peer to peer network through a D-Link wireless ADSL
router/modem. The router address is 192.168.0.0 and via ZoneAlarm I can see
this address in the internet zone under the firewall data together with the
range 192.168.2 to 5 as the trusted zone (these are my computer IP's) and
one other third party IP address also trusted that I use to play online
bridge.
When I booted this morning I was told zone alarm had found a new network and
added it to the list. When I checked the 192.168.0.0 address was gone and
replaced by one that started 199. (I forgot the rest as I panicked and
unplugged the cable + router immediately). After rebooting the router
everything was back to normal. I do not recognise 199 as the start of any
address that I know and it is certainly not my ISP which starts with 80.
There are no unusual alerts in the firewall log.
Can anybody tell me from the above information what happened? It appears
that somebody or something caused a change in the router IP address but
obviously not a permanent change as it reset when I unplugged it.
Is this just some electrical gremlin or was somebody trying to hack me?
Should I do anything about it?
McAfee and Spy Sweeper have found nothing.
advise me where to go.
I have a home peer to peer network through a D-Link wireless ADSL
router/modem. The router address is 192.168.0.0 and via ZoneAlarm I can see
this address in the internet zone under the firewall data together with the
range 192.168.2 to 5 as the trusted zone (these are my computer IP's) and
one other third party IP address also trusted that I use to play online
bridge.
When I booted this morning I was told zone alarm had found a new network and
added it to the list. When I checked the 192.168.0.0 address was gone and
replaced by one that started 199. (I forgot the rest as I panicked and
unplugged the cable + router immediately). After rebooting the router
everything was back to normal. I do not recognise 199 as the start of any
address that I know and it is certainly not my ISP which starts with 80.
There are no unusual alerts in the firewall log.
Can anybody tell me from the above information what happened? It appears
that somebody or something caused a change in the router IP address but
obviously not a permanent change as it reset when I unplugged it.
Is this just some electrical gremlin or was somebody trying to hack me?
Should I do anything about it?
McAfee and Spy Sweeper have found nothing.