Hi, I have a D-link router on Virgin media cable (UK). Connected to this, my laptop on which runs PCguard on which I found the following log entry :
tcp Incoming 216.89.80.51 80 192.168.0.8 4754 21/12/2007 17:43:26
I've not got the router set up to send anything incoming to this laptop so why is there incomming traffic ?
When I http://216.89.80.51 I get :
Thanks in advance.
Bruce.
Counter question: Why do you expect that there should be no incoming traffic?
The incoming IP is on the NET, not the LAN and I've not got the router set to forward any traffic from the WAN to this computer.
And why do you think that explicit forwarding is the only way the router may forward traffic?
Because that is what the aliens beamed into my brain...
At least you finally admin that you don't fully understand NAT.
Well, short to say, there're many reasons:
- triggered by a client from the inside
- related connections according to some heuristic rules
- related connections according to protocol parsing
- full forwarding on 1:1 mapping
- UPnP ...
However, the most reasonable assumption is that your system is compromised (due to abuse of Outlook Express as a newsreader) and has reconfigured your router to forward everything.
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