So i was browsin' my flist..as always. and i got a pop up on my taskbar saying that there was a fatal system error and that my IP had a conflict with another IP in the network. and my connection stopped working. the other computer was working fine, though. wtf?! i looked in my event viewer and found this shit:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Tcpip
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4199
Date: 9/25/2009
Time: 6:26:14 AM
User: N/A
Computer: LAUREN-29WKBFNB
Description:
The system detected an address conflict for IP address (takes out IP addy) with the system having network hardware address 00:23:DF:E4:32:C6. Network operations on this system may be disrupted as a result.

Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 03 00 50 00 ......P.
0008: 00 00 00 00 67 10 00 c0 ....g..À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Dhcp
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1002
Date: 9/25/2009
Time: 6:29:40 AM
User: N/A
Computer: LAUREN-29WKBFNB
Description:
The IP address lease (takes out IP addy) for the Network Card with network address 00055D461E67 has been denied by the DHCP server 0.0.0.0 (The DHCP Server sent a DHCPNACK message).
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Event Type: Information
Event Source: BROWSER
Event Category: None
Event ID: 8033
Date: 9/25/2009
Time: 6:29:44 AM
User: N/A
Computer: LAUREN-29WKBFNB
Description:
The browser has forced an election on network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{B76BFB55-069D-4FEF-B30D-F037F9B42F34} because a master browser was stopped.
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Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Policy Change
Event ID: 615
Date: 9/25/2009
Time: 6:29:47 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
Computer: LAUREN-29WKBFNB
Description:
IPSec Services: IPSec Services failed to get the complete list of network interfaces on the machine. This can be a potential security hazard to the machine since some of the network interfaces may not get the protection as desired by the applied IPSec filters. Please run IPSec monitor snap-in to further diagnose the problem.



any help would be great. seems to work fine now. obviously. i'm just worried that this will be a big problem :/

but....just had an idea...

was someone trying to hack me?????????????? i did go to a site linked from twitter to a Keri news bit. wtfffffffffffffffffffff