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Windows XP computer spewing packets


From: "robe0341 () qwest net" <robe0341 () qwest net>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 12:06:25 -0400

One of the employees here has a Windows laptop, and in the last day, it has
sent out over 1,000,000,000,000 packets, and received around 30,000. The
30,000 is a standard load, but the trillion packets seem to be a bit high. 
I've scanned for spyware and viruses and found nothing.  I tried to nMapWin
from the network, and the computer didn't respond, and when he tried to
nMapWin his ports, he couldn't find himself, from his own computer.  Do you
have any idea what could be causing this?  I'm not to keen on these packets
flying around my network, and if there are security issues, I'm even less
keen.

 

John roberts


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