Help with suspicious foreign ip?

pehine · Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

I have been having problems accessing the internet and suspected some sort of virus, so i have recently installed sunbelts Keiro personal firewall. The firewall is excellent but it has found ip (69.50.160.154) "custblock.intercage.com" trying to access windows explorer.

Could this be stopping me accessing the internet?
Also why is explorer constantly bringing up firewall alerts at startup with 127.0.0.1 and random ports?
Thank you

GTO · Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 1519

Hello, pehine.

The IP address 69.50.16.154 belongs to InterCage, Inc., a web hosting company in California. However, I wouldn't trust if. First of all, its official web site is simply blank, and secondly it is hosting sites related to the infamous parasites such as Pest Trap and RazeSpyware. I guess your system is infected with a similar parasite. That is why a remote server attempts to access your PC.

The IP address 127.0.0.1 is not foreign. It belongs to your computer. Explorer may need to open certain ports. However, such behavior is quite unusual. I highly recommend you to download good anti-spyware program and scan your system with it. You might be infected.