I did a 100% clean install on a new hd. Installed firewall. xampp next and other windows programs (unrelated to xampp). I hadn't used any part of xampp at all, other than installing it for a future project. A week or so later my firewall came on with a message that apache.exe was trying to access the internet to ip address 87.74.17.215
Which whois returned the following:
Status: connecting to whois server 'whois.arin.net'.
Status: sending query '87.74.17.215'.
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OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre
OrgID: RIPE
Address: P.O. Box 10096
City: Amsterdam
StateProv:
PostalCode: 1001EB
Country: NL
ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43
NetRange: 87.0.0.0 - 87.255.255.255
CIDR: 87.0.0.0/8
NetName: 87-RIPE
NetHandle: NET-87-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC
NameServer: NS-PRI.RIPE.NET
NameServer: NS3.NIC.FR
NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: SEC3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: SUNIC.SUNET.SE
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
NameServer: NS.LACNIC.NET
Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in
Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
Comment: the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois
RegDate: 2004-04-01
Updated: 2004-04-06
Can anyone explain why this would happen to restore my trust?