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ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant

IP or CID?

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ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant

Computer Identification number. A CID is a part of your software, and an IP is your internet protocol. That is subject to change based on your ISP, if you use proxy, or if a virus has just infected your system to make shit rough on you. It sounds suspiciously that you have a virus that is playing merry havoc on your IP and or CID, and with the terror situation, it would make some malicious prick quite giddy to have people randomly flagged as potential terrorists.

It's been a few years since I was an active A+ IT tech, and the downside of being a mac user is I don't have to stay on top of the virus world.

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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1

I would check your settings to see what LOCALE you have setup on your PC.

Sooo many times I've seen so-called 'experts' install the OS, say its UK (keyboard and code set), then find the locale has been left as the default US location.

Also, as ET said, it could also be some malware/hijack changing your IP location via a proxy.
The reason I say that is two PC's, bought separately, both exhibiting the same behaviour???
Sounds very suspect to me.

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

FD, I'm trying to marrow the options down as to how this happened, because I have someone in mind - although I could be being a little paranoid.

Is this sort of thing unusual?

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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1

I'd stack Malwarebytes against any of the trend micro stuff.
I've not found trend to be very good at all.

But.... as you said, there is no substitute for a good AV - and not a free one either!!!
A lot of online ones won't let you fix a problem without paying first, even if it finds some nasties.

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ORIGINAL: Gauge

Edited to add: Exiled is right, you might want to get a government entity involved and just ask questions. In this day and age, it may be better to go to them rather than them knocking down your door.

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ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant

I always prefer to put myself on the radar rather than become a sudden blip.

Jus sayin

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

Advice needed, please.

I went to the US a couple of years back. When I got to Washington airport I was stopped, bags checked, questioned and so on.

As part of the questioning, I was asked why my PC has a Saudi IP address (the PC I'd used to purchase a visa).

I've never been to Saudi and my computer at that time was bought in England.

I have Israel, UAE and Oman stamped on my passport, so at the time I thought this was the real reason for me being stopped and the whole Saudi IP address thing was part of the routine they go through in an attempt to catch you out.

I didn't really think much more about it.

Earlier this year I was in Norway, and had paid for a hire car through my PC which was a different PC I purchased about a year back.

We had a problem with the car and when I called the car company I looked through the documents and to my surprise saw the IP address on the documents purchased from my new PC, and the IP address on the documents stated Saudi Arabia.

So, my question is: I purchased a Visa for the US on one PC; I purchased a car from Norway on another PC; both PCs were bought in England. How can these computers have a Saudi IP address?

Thanks in advance.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

I was asked why my PC has a Saudi IP address...

Are you using a VPN like "HideMyAss" or "IPvanish"? Those are Saudi VPNs, and your traffic will report a Saudi IP address.

K.

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ORIGINAL: subrosaDom

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

Advice needed, please.

I went to the US a couple of years back. When I got to Washington airport I was stopped, bags checked, questioned and so on.

As part of the questioning, I was asked why my PC has a Saudi IP address (the PC I'd used to purchase a visa).

I've never been to Saudi and my computer at that time was bought in England.

I have Israel, UAE and Oman stamped on my passport, so at the time I thought this was the real reason for me being stopped and the whole Saudi IP address thing was part of the routine they go through in an attempt to catch you out.

I didn't really think much more about it.

Earlier this year I was in Norway, and had paid for a hire car through my PC which was a different PC I purchased about a year back.

We had a problem with the car and when I called the car company I looked through the documents and to my surprise saw the IP address on the documents purchased from my new PC, and the IP address on the documents stated Saudi Arabia.

So, my question is: I purchased a Visa for the US on one PC; I purchased a car from Norway on another PC; both PCs were bought in England. How can these computers have a Saudi IP address?

Thanks in advance.

You don't have to reveal it here, but what do you use for email? There are a lot of people who use AOL, which pretty much let's anyone and everything through. Hotmail used to be terrible, although it's better now that MSFT has made it part of outlook.com. But anything could have gotten through previously. Yahoo? Does anyone really trust Yahoo? Gmail is better but of course google reads every email you ever write.

You don't have to be an idiot and click on a Nigerian email to get infected. You could have click on a picture, even, and while it's often porn, it needn't be. There are a lot of stealth ways to infect a computer.

I would absolutely use a solid email server (I'll let others recommend them: I personally don't have much of an issue with outlook and from a spam POV, I find google to be acceptable).