Test of New Post

I started a new threat 10 minutes ago, and it did not come onto the forum listing immediately. This is a test of response time.

 

While trying to find out why my router was continually resetting, I looked at the log and found one of the home computers was sending 1 to 4 times every 5 seconds, a UDP message to address 255.255.255.255 from an address not on the intranet - nothing even near the intranet (192.168.x.y). Digging through the internet for that address, I found a Cisco webpage that explained that if a router (they were talking about theirs, but I'm analogizing to mine) gets a command it doesn't understand, it can interpret it as a request to this address.

So, maybe this computer is trying to give commands to the home router. Home router problems are related to the use of default passwords, which I do not use. The request to the router is therefore denied every time. However, are any getting through somehow? I don't know. I want to find the source of them on the home computer issuing them. (I know which one by turning them off one by one.)

I have done all the steps for Malware removal listed on your lead-in page, and they have not affected this in the slightest. Attached are some logs from this process.

Trying to workaround a problem with posting.

 

Finally getting my stuff posted - router attack!

Here are the system logs. Had to zip them together - the forum is really fighting me.

 

Thanks very much for the speedy reply. I am aware that 255.255.255.255 is the general broadcast IP, but I am wondering how that fits my situation. One machine only is broadcasting it, and it is doing so every few seconds, over and over. And why does it use an IP number to identify itself that has no relationship to anything on the intranet? And why is there no process on the task manager that corresponds to the incessant UDP broadcasting? And why does the router DENY the message instead of answering it, if it is a legitimate request?

I don't know what is causing the router reset, but I would like to make absolutely sure that the incessant UDP message from one computer is not a contributing factor.

I'm sorry for my ignorance of how to post here. Thank you for overlooking that. I don't even know what a refresh problem is?

Once again, I really appreciate your taking the time to look at this.