Uh oh! Am I infected or infiltrated ? Help me decipher icons!
I just installed a new Dell pc and when I went into my computer here's what I saw. Can you help me identify these icons?
What OS is loaded on this computer? Those ICONS look fine to me.
it looks like either you're connected to another network, or someone is connected to yours.
Go to your router config and look at the logs. Most home routers are 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1.. you can find out which is yours by doing a tracert to your own ip.
You can find your own ip address by doing START/RUN/CMD
at the prompt, type: ipconfig /all
that will show you the info you need. Your gateway is typically your router address
The items seen above are a Roku player (streaming media), looks like some sort of DNLA enabled hard drive or media player and some external storage... if you don't recognize the names, it is possible they don't belong to you :)
Go to your router config and look at the logs. Most home routers are 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1.. you can find out which is yours by doing a tracert to your own ip.
You can find your own ip address by doing START/RUN/CMD
at the prompt, type: ipconfig /all
that will show you the info you need. Your gateway is typically your router address
The items seen above are a Roku player (streaming media), looks like some sort of DNLA enabled hard drive or media player and some external storage... if you don't recognize the names, it is possible they don't belong to you :)
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this looks like devices plugged or connected to your network, If you go to control panel, network and internet, choose homegroup and sharing options, you can turn off sharing options as needed
If you in fact have SONOS devices and a ROKU media player, it all seems legit! It's just a network discovery done by your Windows, and these are the things it found on your network.
You should only worry if you are sure you DO NOT own these devices (start asking neighbors though, either you are on their wifi, or they are on yours, which seems a bit unlikely)
You should only worry if you are sure you DO NOT own these devices (start asking neighbors though, either you are on their wifi, or they are on yours, which seems a bit unlikely)
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Hi All:
This is a brand new Windows 8.1 pc. Scary to see things that I do not own as icons.
I do not own a machine called THOR! And what kind of icon is that? that doesn't look like a pc.
or Roku
or sonos bridge.
or Perky.
How can I disconnect these things from my network!
Is there a guide to what the icons mean? I don't understand some of those icons?
This is a brand new Windows 8.1 pc. Scary to see things that I do not own as icons.
I do not own a machine called THOR! And what kind of icon is that? that doesn't look like a pc.
or Roku
or sonos bridge.
or Perky.
How can I disconnect these things from my network!
Is there a guide to what the icons mean? I don't understand some of those icons?
It looks like windows 8.1 and the standard way it identifies items on the local network.
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Thanks to all!