New IP addresses and windows worms

[wolfieboy]

So, we were able to get our new IP addresses now. We went from 5 addresses to 29. This will be rather useful. I already found out that the problem with the printer was user error rather than anything else. It does mean that I'll be able to set up the wireless since I'll be able to segment the network. So, if there was a brief period where folks

Comments

[dvord_direwood]

svchost.exe is a wrapper for any number of bad (and good) programs on your computer... In fact if you bring up your running processes you will most likely see svchost.exe running a few different instances.

I agree tho, when in doubt, stop the service. If things work fine after that, you probably aren't missing anything.

Re: svchost.exe

[wolfieboy]

I just blocked it from being downloaded. I know that it runs things locally...

ip's

[chrisla]

Why do you need so many IP's? Why not just 1-5 and a NAT router?

Re: ip's

[urox]

I wanna know, too! :)

Re: ip's

[wolfieboy]

I mentioned some reasons to chrisla. There might be more that I'm not thinking of because it is too early though.

Re: ip's

[wolfieboy]

Well, I don't. I only needed a couple more. I asked for a block of 16 which would yield 13 ip addresses. I couldn't ask for less. But since my account actually comes with 32, that what they gave me.
Why I didn't just NAT as much as possible? One element is the "They come with the account" viewpoint but that's not much of an argument. That's why I only had the 8 block first. More of a reason is the annoyance of trying to have externally viewable servers that are NAT-ted is very annoying. I don't want to have to deal with the tricks involved.

Windows & svchost.....

[jassad]

Hi Bro