Once in awhile, like when I am on the surfing the web, I will see a blue spike on Network Shield and under Last analyzed connection it lists my personal IP address. To be clear, no connections were blocked or declared infected.
I presume this is normal, but I just wanted to confirm
Normally, I notice it when I open Firefox (when no other browser window is open) and then I search for something or try to go somewhere. It is a tiny blue, clean spike
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It seems to be a Firefox issue
When I start Chrome and start using the internet I get a connection to something along the lines of ***.at.cox.net
When I start Firefox and … I get a a connection to my IP address
I presume it has to do with my ISP (Cox)
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Firefox uses local loopback for several purposes.
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-automatically-making-connections
I am not seeing 127.0.0.1
I am seeing my actual ISP provided IP address.
So it will saying something like http://...*/. When I look up the IP address, it turns out to be my own IP.
http://whatismyipaddress.com/ then links that IP back to Cox (my ISP)
Some app on your PC tries to connect to this address.
PS: no clue about the bumps you keep mentioning, these aren’t probably related to avast at all
bump means “bring up my post”, they don’t mean anything about my computer’s condition.
I am presuming this is safe, since Avast! and MBAM find nothing wrong with my computer, it just seems weird that when I open Firefox I get connections to my own IP address.