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Greetings. I am new to this website but have an important question. Please help.
Usually, on the AntiOnline IP locator page, my IP address is a follows:
66.91.214.22 and is located in Herndon, Virgina (my internet company's home site)
HOWEVER, as of yesterday, the locator now reads:
66.91.214.22 in AUSTRALIA!!! Am I currently the victim of a virus, trojan and/or being hacked!
Your suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
The locator is highly inaccurate. (At least it has been with all my tests.) Don't worry, you don't have a virus or anything.
- Xierox
for your response.
It is strange, however, that my other computer gets an accurate response from the locator. Is there a technical reason as to why I am getting an odd response for *this* particular terminal?
No clue. :-/ Sorry, can any of you other guys help him?
- X
It still resolves to
Herndon, VA
cheers
Weird. For me it resolves to Australia. /shrug
- Xierox
When I change the IP address, for example, to:
66.91.214.21 the locator initially reads "virginia." however, when I refresh my browser, it then reads "Australia." (as of last night, anyway).
Incidentally, during the past week, my (Norton) virus alert reported:
bloodhound.exploit6 (unable to remove)
bloodhound.exploit23 (removed)
trojan.download (unable to remove)
trojan.download (removed)
Also, at shutdown: I now have an unknown program terminating. Perhaps coincidence? Or a connection there?
Quote:
When I change the IP address, for example, to:
66.91.214.21 the locator initially reads "virginia." however, when I refresh my browser, it then reads "Australia." (as of last night, anyway).
Well you can download ole “Sam Spade” and check yourself when you’re in the mood. And it also has a trace feature to show you the hops.
www.samspade.org/
thanks for the support, relyt, I will do that! let you know what happens.
Hi
Rockypoint, obtaining a position from your IP has nothing to do with
your box itself.
IP locator usually obtain information about your country/ISP location
etc from whois-servers.
If the whois-server does not know your IP (not every whois-server
has information about every IP), a default location given is australia
(try at apnic.net[1])
A good source IP -> location is at whois.sc[2]
Cheers
[1] http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl
[2] www.whois.sc
its probably getting caught on a hop along the way. IP locators are VERY inaccurate.
Sam Spade site traces back to Virginia. I feel somewhat at ease now. Norton and Panda virus scan reported "virus free." Also, Anti-Keylogger reported no threats...Thanks again for the responses. Y'all are truly supporting a technical dimwit here.
Hi rockypoint,
Another good site you might want to bookmark is...
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools.
Mahalo XTC!
Sec_Ware, Egaladeist---And all else: Your Tech support is well appreciated.
Damn you guys are lucky, I wish I lived in hawaii :D
"Book him, Danno"Quote:
Damn you guys are lucky, I wish I lived in hawaii
Now that DOES show my age :D (Hawaii Five-O?)
OK, hopefully irrelevant,.........be sure to update you anti-malware, disable the system restore, and run everything in SAFE MODE (you can kill them better that way).
Cheers
Hey folks,
All Net Tools has avery nice collections of online tools, including, SmartWhois, NsLookUp, TraceRoute and Ping. I found them fully and accurately functional.... You can check them out and judge them yourself...
Cheers,,
As an aside, rockypoint...
If you're so concerned about viruses and the like, maybe you shouldn't be posting your IP address all over the internet...
Just a thought ;)
greeting's
rockypoint I went through one of your posts where you have mentioned that BOTH NORTON AND PANDA anti-virus scan showed a virus free system. Well i do not know wheather you have both of them installed on your system but if you have then just an advise that it is not recommended to install 2 anti-virus at the same time as they can and may cause a system crash, use up lot of memory (Esp. Norton) and more importantly they may interfere in each other's working.
However if you scanned your computer online at respective site's then it is okay. or even if you have one of the anti-virus installed and you scanned at one of the site then it is a nice and advisable practise (to use online scan as a backup to an installed anti-virus)..
Just pointing this out (just an advice) ... anyway it is nice to hear that your system is virus free.
I followed Symantec's "virus" removal instuctions: intelligent update, shut down system restore, run scan in safe mode. To be on the safe side, I also ran a second scan. I then went to Panda online--which located adware. Otherwise, virus free.
Trojan Remover (unregistered) has given me a clean slate. So too does Anti-Keylogger.
IP Locator still has me traced to Australia, though. However, using the links graciously provided in this thread, all report back to my internet provider. Hopefully, all is well.
I also tinkered with "ping" on my windows command prompt...However, I had no clue as how to use the "ping" command--and merely ended up with "error" or "no such command" messages. I am not sure whether or not this would have been useful. Any suggestions? Thanks again.
For ping info, just enter "ping" (without the quotes of course) into the command prompt and press enter. The help file will pop up and explain the options.
In it's simplist form:
ping XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX then press enter
X's being the ip address ie: 192.168.2.1
Also, the Sam Spade program you downloading has a ping feature as well. Just enter the IP in the white bar on the left and press the ping button.
cheers
I tried "pinging" on command prompt...didn't seem to work. After ping, I got a list of different options...I also tried pingxxx.xx.xxx.xxx but received an error message. I must be doing something wrong in typing in the command.
Immediately after, I googled "ping", and this site was immediately listed:
http://network-tools.com
Using "trace", the result is as follows:
TraceRoute to xx.xx.xxx.xxx[cpe-xx-xxx.xx.xxx.com]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 0 0 0 xxxxxxxxxxx gphou-xxxxxxxxx1.net
2 0 0 0 xxxxxxxxxxx gphou-xxxxxxxxx.ev1.net
3 0 0 0 xxxxxxxxxxx gphou-xxxxxxxxx6.ev1.net
4 1 1 1 xxxxxxxxxxx ge-xxxxxxxxxxxus.bb.verio.net
5 10 10 10 xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxus.bb.verio.net
6 7 7 7 xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.verio.net
7 7 7 7 xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx.us.bb.verio.net
8 11 8 7 xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx.qwest.net
9 42 42 42 xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx.qwest.net
10 42 42 42 xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.net
11 94 94 94 xxxxxxxxxxxxx- No Host Listed
12 95 95 95 xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.rr.com
13 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
14 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
15 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
16 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
Trace aborted.
Mind you, I have no idea what exactly all of this means. From what I gather, these are all of the places my internet connection travelled (hops?) until finally reaching its final destination.
Strangely enough, one of the first IP Address' listed appeared to be from Australia. I need to double check. Perhaps this is were IPLocator is reading?
Then again, I still have my initial question: Why Australia? And why do other computers (using IPLocator) trace back to Virginia, while *this* one stops in for an Aussie summer?
Sorry for the awful table. Formatting didn't work.
Rocky,
My check of your IP shows you on Road Runner service in Oahu, Hawaii.
Herdon, Virginia is home base for Road Runner.
As for Australia, it's just a bad dns reply, it'll fix itself.
Thanks to everyone who provided online support. Aloha.
Back home in Virginia!