Ghost in the machine

  • 6 January 2017
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Okay I have definitive proof that the devices showing up on my network are fictitous. I'm including a screen shot of the latest called "argonglobal".


This is clearly a fictitous device. No one uses a Blackberry anymore.


I recently found someone in Washington that was also getting a full_ford device showing up on his network. It had the same MAC address as mine & I live in Georgia. 
My router doesn't block MAC addresses but I doubt it would do any good, anyway.
Same problem here.  full_giza appears and disappears.  I added its MAC address to my router reject filter and haven't seen it since. 
 
But also I am seeing a transient 'network infrastructure' device show up on my File Explorer network display.  I have an ASUS RT-AC66U_B1 router, but occasionally I also see a Linksys E8350 router appear.  Both of these devices will appear and disappear from the File Explorer display, but only the ASUS should be there.  I am connected to a Ubee DVW32CB modem that can serve as a wireless router, but I am not using that function.  I don't see any info on the modem that suggests that an embedded E8350 is providing the router function.  The MAC address shown for the E8350 doesn't match the MAC addresses on the label of the modem.  ??????
I too now have various devices showing up in Windows 10 network. I ran advanced IP scanner and it found a second subnet.


 
 
 
 
 
The 172 octet is mine, the 192 is not. And it is unscannable. 
At first I thought it was an older Linksys that I run in WEP mode periodically for an old iBook but the random devices till pop in with that off.
Very interesting…
 

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