High Sent Packets on Broadband

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Ruben

I just installed a cable modem on a new Dell PC running
Windows XP Home edition. At first things seemed to be
running well. Then the internet connection slowed down to
a crawl. I noticed the "send" LED was on solid and the
receive blinked intermittently. I opened the network
connection status window and noticed that the sent packet
count was very high and climbing, while the receive packet
count was very low. For example, the sent to receive ratio
was something like 100:1!

I shut down all unnecessary services like the virus
scanner and any firewall apps, but to no avail. One
interesting thing is that things went back to normal while
doing a Windows Update through Microsoft's site. Then,
after the update, things got worse! The ratio went to at
least 500:1!

My guess is that XP suspends certain services while
updating its components, and one of these is sending a
massive amount of information out through the broadband
connection. To where, I don't know.

Any help or hint would be appreciated, either here or
emailed to me.
 
Use a free online virus scanner like Housecall or
Symantec. Odd's are very high that you have the Nachi
worm in your computer.
 
Thanks, Jon, I'll try that. I also found out that the WINS
service is causing the high number of sent packets. Once I
turned it off the problem was solved. I wonder if the
Nachi worm uses this windows service . . .
 
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