Just an update: Gandi.net shutdown that domain name. It no longer resolves. This means that it probably was being set-up to perform...
Here is the traceroute to wpad.domain.name. I hope that answers to your original concern. It isn't two connections, just one. And the domain...
I've reimaged my system drive to 2 months ago, and I've also tested this in a clean virtual machine. I've scanned boot sectors. This is as good,...
I've fixed the problem! And as I suspected, it isn't malware (after 7 different scans I can confirm that)! Instead it's a case of unintentional...
I'm leaning towards there being something buried deep in my system, possibly in the MBR? A bootable scan might be my next attempt as all of the...
I'm not sure as to how similar this is. It may be related but it's hard to tell. Something is causing the NSI service in my svchost to request a...
Thanks for the reply. I ran RUBotted but it never detected anything. Esmisoft is a bit large for my connection so I'll download it a little later....
UPDATE: I just gave up and eventually allowed the connection. This gave me some interesting info from Wireshark. I followed the TCP packets to...
I'm at wits end here. Since yesterday whenever I connect to my router (via Ethernet) svchost tries to connect to some obscure IP. 217.70.184.38....
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