Hmmm, was just taking a peek at the network shield again when I saw dns://154.97.85.70.in-addr.arpa. Traced it to AfriNIC (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfriNIC) which doesn't seem like something to worry about, but I was not using the internet at the time. I was running Malwarebytes, Microsoft Word, and Avast. Is this worrying?
When I queried this at afrinic.net, part of the description read:
AfriNIC -
www.afrinic.netdescr: Allocation for Africa - This block is in use
descr: by AfriNIC for allocating/assigning to networks
descr: in the AfriNIC service region.
descr: More information - whois.afrinic.net.
descr: Abuse - please querry the whois db for the
descr: contacts of the assigned/allocated prefix.
I've got no idea what this actually means. As I said, not computer savvy in the least. I'm guess the IP was assigned by afrinic, but to who? I originally thought that it meant that the IP was traced to somebody FROM afrinic headquarters. But I don't think that's the case.
Please assist. I could be making a mountain out of a molehill but I'm alarmed to say in the least. This IP address has popped up three times on the network shield, now. I can't figure out what it has to do with me, and if it's internet-related, why did it show up on the network shield when I wasn't using the internet?