Don't know anything about computers/internet etc but when I spot something like this it freaks me out!

On my internet security package thing, on the anti hacker tab there is another tab under open ports called traffic with loads of Ip addresses listed. Argggh what is all this! Am I being watched!?

It is likely to be the IP addresses of the sites you have recently visited. Put an IP up and let us see what it is.

It will probably be a log of all the activity its blocked. If it were empty then I would worry. I get a few people trying to log in to my home machine every day and some of the servers I have must take about 1000 attempts to break in each day.

Or what mod-man said

What Richard said sounds more plausible.

65.59.234.166

X Box.com?!!

What I haven't been on this! Ever!

The xbox.com domain does resolve to the given address, so it is a valid domain. So the computer has accessed that site. However it doesn't mean that you have done this directly. It could appear simply because you have been to a site which has an advert for an xbox which is being served from the xbox.com domain.

That is to say, you could have been looking at a page, like this one, and on that page is an advert for an xbox and the picture or flash animation came from that domain.

xbox.com is fine as a domain. Microsoft own it and it is highly unlikely to contain any malicious stuff at all.

The xbox.com domain does resolve to the given address, so it is a valid domain. So the computer has accessed that site. However it doesn't mean that you have done this directly. It could appear simply because you have been to a site which has an advert for an xbox which is being served from the xbox.com domain.

That is to say, you could have been looking at a page, like this one, and on that page is an advert for an xbox and the picture or flash animation came from that domain.

xbox.com is fine as a domain. Microsoft own it and it is highly unlikely to contain any malicious stuff at all.

I kind of understand now, I typed in other one which was called 'my offers' which could have been advertised on another site.

Does any other person use your machine? Do you own an X-Box? The site seems safe at my end. Again, Richard seems to have this one.

Its stuff like www.halifax.someotherdomain.ch which would raise alarm bells, i.e. sites that are poorly trying to pretend they are halifax.

Does any other person use your machine? Do you own an X-Box? The site seems safe at my end. Again, Richard seems to have this one.

There are quite a few on there, just checked another one out and it bounced me back here so I suppose thats ok. Just me, its a lap top on a wireless connection.

Again, Richard seems to have this one.

I'm supposed to be working as well.

Microsoft own it and it is highly unlikely to contain any malicious stuff at all.

That made me smile ;)

traffic normally just means...traffic.
the internet is full of traffic, some of it youll catch when you surf, the firewall will block most of it, you need to watch for the high risk ones

hmm, i just got an email from "halifax"
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=259645&highlight=halifax+email+scam

It is likely to be the IP addresses of the sites you have recently visited. Put an IP up and let us see what it is.
Or try entering the IP number in this site.

http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl