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Message on printer...is this some sort of hack?
This message was on my printer this morning...anyone know what this means?
I have a Nighthawk R7000P with Armor activated.
# GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: Internet address
Accept: */*
User-A...
The Host Internet address on the printed message is not the same as my router IP address....would this mean that the Host address is the IP address from which this message is coming from?
Is it a private LAN (RFC 1918) address - assumingly from your own LAN (don't worry, millions of installations make use of these, so there would be nothing wrong to post) - probably of a system where you have installed Bitdefender for example?
Actually it’s very close to my IP address...beginning with 192. Is it possible that this is related to Bitdefender....this started soon after installing Armor on my system...
Of course, the Armor (Bitdefender) does run some vulnerability tests over all network devices discovered - so this is most likley an IP address of a machine where you have installed it.
And again, you can post these 192.168.x/24 addresses - we're all using the same (except those which are on the 10/8 prefix or in the 172.16/12 prefixes.
I have two printers attached to the router and since the "trial version" of the NETGEAR's ARMOR was installed, about 40 pages of copier paper have been trashed! Each "cycle" uses five pages. The first page is a six lines message that starts with the GET / HTTP/1.1 line. By the fifth page, it is a one liner of a few ASCII characters?! "Nice" feature NETGEAR!