Random Device names showing up

Shockracer · December 11, 2017

I was digging around my system looking for some old files, I ended up going to devices and seen a device called Austin, I hit refresh and it disappeared. I thought about for a bit and hit refresh again and it popped up again, so I opened it and it shows a Mac address. I went to Microsoft forums and seen many others have had the same names pop up with different Mac addresses.

Look through the post and please let me know what you guys think? Make sure you click previous to see the start of the thread.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security-winpc/amazon-device-randomly-showing-up-on-network/4e356dde-efc8-4d1a-a4ad-6295b28b5193?messageId=7d3437e3-89fb-4943-a446-07b792ebaa1b

Shockracer · December 14, 2017

Would really like to find out about this!

vaiwalker · December 15, 2017

what icon does it have? maybe its some device in your house cuz network discovery is on? or someone got into your wifi network can you ping it?

Shockracer · December 16, 2017

On 12/15/2017 at 2:29 AM, vaiwalker said:

what icon does it have? maybe its some device in your house cuz network discovery is on? or someone got into your wifi network can you ping it?

Unable to ping it, it seems integrated into windows. In the link you can see others are getting the same names populating only with different MAC addresses. I blocked the MAC address on my router and it still came and went.