Strange "Home (2)" Network, Now windows suddenly asking Allow Acess Firewall.

[choli]

Hi Forum,

Gonna try to explain this as clear as possible.

Day#1
skype froze and crashed.
All my other applications and web browser all worked fine.
Then after a few min i try to restart skype.
Skype just keeps whirling around for like 2min or so. (Perhaps installing an update or such)
Then exactly as skype starts to log in. This image Prompted:
http://i.imgur.com/DvmLwDR.png
I dont understand why skype is asking for this.
I asked in skype forum why that happened. But they got defensive right away.

Day#2
After i rebooted my PC.
When i was running some of my application windows started prompting for firewall access. (Which it has never done before)
It suddenly asks for firewall Access. http://i.imgur.com/peyQIxP.png
As if my ESET is not doing the firewalling anymore.

Day#3 (Today)
Ok so i thought its best i take as many pictures of network stuff to make it easier for you guys?
I was about to take pictures for you all to show the home(2) network
But just realized that now it has changed again to Network 3 i think?
Windows: http://i.imgur.com/jx6CqI8.png
Windows: http://i.imgur.com/3qq1aHW.png
Eset: http://i.imgur.com/gRobRbG.png - But Eset seems to be only focused on "home" perhaps that is why my windows is starting to prompt firewall acces windows?

Also#4
Been also having strange disconnects at late times in night. that only last very short.
They seem to have stopped now though.
Nothing on my ISP webpage was showing anything about down times or work done on the cables.

I am not knowledgeable enough to know what is going on.
Hope you guys can help out!

Friendly Greets!

Choli


Edit:
- Just did some more searching around and found this in Eset: http://i.imgur.com/X0xvUDn.png
- That does not explain what the "Network 3" is about though.
- Seems as if i t keeps adding one once Eset has one detected? because i dont think it knew about home (2) before.
- I might be wrong though. i dont know these things.
- The Windows asking for firewall rules all a sudden after all these strange events just slightly concerns me a bit.

[DaveLembke]

The discovery of new network connections with the others lost will cause this, such as if someone was making drastic changes to IP with the first 3 values for A B or C octets of the IP address where IP address is 4 groups A B C D. A change to D would not cause this, but a change to A B or C would require the firewall to learn of a new exception or block rule.

This is more common with drastic IP address changes such as connecting a hard wired network connection to different networks instead of wifi.

Are you running your computer direct to modem or do you have a router in between?
 Are you using wireless or wired connection?
 Have you run an updated antivirus on your system to make sure its clean?
Have you performed an IP config and started tracking what your IP address lease is to confirm drastic changes are happening and what IPs your getting?
Have you run a traceroute ( tracert ) to see if there are any unusual hops listed such as if someone is acting as a gateway connection and stealing your information and snooping on you? (*traceroute will list IP addresses for hops, all of them in a google search should show that they are legit hops. )

[choli]

The discovery of new network connections with the others lost will cause this, such as if someone was making drastic changes to IP with the first 3 values for A B or C octets of the IP address where IP address is 4 groups A B C D. A change to D would not cause this, but a change to A B or C would require the firewall to learn of a new exception or block rule.

This is more common with drastic IP address changes such as connecting a hard wired network connection to different networks instead of wifi.

Are you running your computer direct to modem or do you have a router in between?
 Are you using wireless or wired connection?

- I am wired into router.
- Where 2 other people are connected in. all wired cable. +1 person uses wifi now and then that comes over.

Have you run an updated antivirus on your system to make sure its clean?

I am running the latest ESET Smart Security (9).

Have you performed an IP config and started tracking what your IP address lease is to confirm drastic changes are happening and what IPs your getting?

- no
was not sure on how much i should marker out: http://i.imgur.com/8d5lrZq.png
where it says lease it says: jan16. and expire the 19th.

Have you run a traceroute ( tracert ) to see if there are any unusual hops listed such as if someone is acting as a gateway connection and stealing your information and snooping on you? (*traceroute will list IP addresses for hops, all of them in a google search should show that they are legit hops. )

- no
i dont know anything about traceroute yet. when i did one i got this result:
one starting with 192. (no info for it)
one starting with 195. (no info for it)
eurorings.net [3x]
kpn.net [2x]
telia.net [6x]
netaccess.telia.net [1x]
nac.net [1x]
nodebalancer.linode.com [1x]
207.99.53.42

Also it feels as if though my ESET has lost its part of doing the firewalling. because of windows starting to suddenly pick it up. if that makes sense?