1) A "Network Place" someone added
2) Added by some application that needs to talk to "mommy" for updates....
3) Spyware / Malware

....kurt

<MsOsWin@anon.com> wrote in message
news:Xns969186FD37881MsOsWinAnon@64.85.239.19...
>2 computers. WinXP and WinME ("9x") on Netgear home-setup router. ZoneAlarm
>free.
> Today I powered both up at approximately same time.
>
> Trouble:
> At first I opened Network Places, but couldn't "see" XP in "network
> places" from either
> computer. It looked as if always could access 9x computer from either
> computer. This
> lasted for roughly a half hour, while I looked for the problem, (including
> the usual fast fixes:
> momentarily pulling power from cable modem and router)
>
> -------
> Next, I found a weird looking thing in nethood:
> uploads on eh.robis.net
> Properties, Target: \\Eh.robis.net\uploads
> 4 days old
> (I haven't had any network trouble in the last 4 days, but also hadn't
> noticed eh.robis.net in
> nethood, which is browsed a lot via regular windows explorer.exe.)
>
> eh.robis.net seems to be some kind of religious site, though the 'root'
> address
> http://eh.robis.net shows a blank template for "election" whatever. I
> don't know why anyone
> here would have visited, and certainly no one uploads.
>
> http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=...%2Erobis%2Enet
> but I notice "uploads" is in URL of all of their pages.
> site:eh.robis.net eh.robis.net uploads -inurl:uploads - did not match any
> documents
>
> --------
>
> I used xplorer2lite ("alternate windows" shell viewer whatever) to view
> nethood, but it didn't
> show anything different (that I see. Xplorer2 will show device ID numbers
> for floppies and
> USB things)
>
>
> NAV eventually "Auto-Protect enabled" in SysTray. [1] That's when it
> seemed could first
> could access this computer (XP) in nethood from either computer.
>
> ==================================
> Google gives not really anything:
> http://www.google.dk/search?q=%22upl...k-Places&hl=en
> http://www.google.dk/search?q=upload...obis.net&hl=en
>
> Nothing or nothing applicable:
> http://groups.google.dk/groups?q=upl...obis.net&hl=en
> uploads on eh.robis.net - did not match any documents.
> eh.robis.net - did not match any documents.
> "uploads on" Chrome Mozilla | Firefox - did not match any documents.
> http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=...n%22+Deer-Park
> http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=...s+on%22+chrome
>
>
> Nothing
> http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?query=eh.robis.net
> http://web.ask.com/web?q=eh.robis.net+
> http://s.teoma.com/search?q=eh.robis.net
>
>
>
> (sidenote: these give *more* pages if *add* words to search!)
> http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=eh.robis.net+
> http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=eh.robis.net
> http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=eh.robis.net
> http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=eh.robis.net+uploads
> http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=eh.robis.net
>
>
>
> 1] (but this is "normal" behavior since winter, and I spent much time
> trying to figure
> that out.)