Re: Over 2 billion packets sent, 27k received- virus???

From: CheshireCat (blah_at_blah.c0m)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:30:35 -0000

"Dave Wright" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CC247B85-FF2C-4977-B699-DDBFBDBACA57@microsoft.com...
> I have reboot my machine and router, but after a while the outgoing
packets are very high while the incoming are reasonable. One might think
that this is a Trojan, but I have run a scan, which came up clean and I have
installed all of the MS most recent Win XP patches. Any ideas?
> Dave
Ive seen other responders say this is probably a bug in the nic driver
software that causes it to return an incorrect count.
You could get some diagnostic tools from www.sysinternals.com or download a
network connection monitor. 

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