ARIN reports the IP to be a Special Use Black Hole, and no further information?

that's the address block from which devices self-allocate addresses when a DHCP server is not found. Does that help?

Sort of. I got hit by a browser_hijacker/backdoor recently, and have been fidddling with obscure comodo's firewall settings in the same

period. Unwittingly. Mostly to improve utorrents port access. Anyway, Avira struggled with the hijacker, and Comodo reported new network add

I've woken up today to find that system now boots to blue screen. So I concede the hijackers won that round. Will recover it gradually

But there has been no new hardware on it. There's about 10% chance that the p2p files I've downloaded were the carrier, a 15% chance it mite

have come thru encrypted image, and a 70% chance I wandered into a honeypot looking for serials 5% unknown. Err give or take ~50%. & Ta!

why any device, soft or hard, would go beyond my modem which has a functioning DHCP server?