Modem activities with Windows XP

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Ming Chow

I installed/registered/activated Windows XP last
Saturday. I then used IE to visit Yahoo etc. After a few
minutes, I noticed that my modem was sending far more
stuffs than it received. I disconnected the PC from WWW.
However, the problem did not go away. Every time I
connected to WWW (Yahoo, for example), that spontaneous
uploading of stuffs began. The uploading traffic was so
heavy that I could not browse webpages. More than 10 MB
got 'sent' that way. Mine was a new install and there
really should have nothing for others to steal.
I reformated my hard disk and installed from scratch. I
dare not connecting to WWW right now.
Does anyone have any clue what happened?
Is this part of Microsoft's 'activation'?
Thanks
 
Ming Chow said:
I installed/registered/activated Windows XP last
Saturday. I then used IE to visit Yahoo etc. After a few
minutes, I noticed that my modem was sending far more
stuffs than it received. I disconnected the PC from WWW.
However, the problem did not go away. Every time I
connected to WWW (Yahoo, for example), that spontaneous
uploading of stuffs began. The uploading traffic was so
heavy that I could not browse webpages. More than 10 MB
got 'sent' that way. Mine was a new install and there
really should have nothing for others to steal.
I reformated my hard disk and installed from scratch. I
dare not connecting to WWW right now.
Does anyone have any clue what happened?
Is this part of Microsoft's 'activation'?
Thanks
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No it is not part of Microsoft Activation.
There are a bunch of worms out on the Internet that
will infect your system if you do not have the XP Firewall
or a third-party firewall enabled before connecting to the
Internet. Then you will need to immediately go to the
Windows Update site and get all critical updates installed.
It probably would be a good idea to first install KB823980
and reboot and then go back for the rest of the critical
updates.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/windowsxp/firewall.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp
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