What is this in my Referer stats?

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  scout639 · Member · Jul 26, 2008 at 4:58 pm

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  http://192.168.100.11:15871/cgi-bin/blockOptions.cgi?ws-session=1795415353

  This comes up every day, over and over. What is it?

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  katm · Member · Jul 26, 2008 at 5:01 pm

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  192.xxx.xxx.xx is an IP address within a network. Like, for example, one of the computers on my network is 192.168.123.xx. After the colon is likely a port number. Don’t know about the rest of it though. It might be some sort of script someone is running on their own machine, but that’s just a guess.

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  scout639 · Member · Jul 26, 2008 at 5:13 pm

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  My blog has a lot of local politics on it. Could this be offices within the county of city network are signing on and over-riding a firewall?

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  scout639 · Member · Jul 26, 2008 at 5:14 pm

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  Sorry I meant county or city.

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  katm · Member · Jul 26, 2008 at 5:27 pm

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  I’m pretty sure it’s harmless.

  http://llbb.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/someone-is-hacking-me/
  http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432&t=257843&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
  http://www.websense.com/global/en/

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  katm · Member · Jul 26, 2008 at 5:28 pm

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  In other words, don’t panic (very sage advice that I heard yesterday from my own computer tutor).

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  scout639 · Member · Jul 26, 2008 at 5:43 pm

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  Thanks and I wasn’t worried, just curious. You know how politics is, a hot potato!