Local Area Connection

[mlharrison]

Our LAN seems to be sending billions of packets over our
DSL connection. We have to reboot our computers to get it
to stop - and reset. We have one computer on XP Home and
the other on XP Professional. We've had this in-home
network for about 2 years, and have had this problem
intermittently until the last 2-3 months. I am lucky to
be able to stay connected long enough to send this email!

Please help. What can we do?

 

[Malke]

Our LAN seems to be sending billions of packets over our
DSL connection. We have to reboot our computers to get it
to stop - and reset. We have one computer on XP Home and
the other on XP Professional. We've had this in-home
network for about 2 years, and have had this problem
intermittently until the last 2-3 months. I am lucky to
be able to stay connected long enough to send this email!

Please help. What can we do?

Immediately disconnect all computers from the network and be sure you
are off the Internet. Scan all computers with current antivirus using
updated definitions. It certainly sounds like you've got some computers
turned into zombies by a trojan. Be sure you've applied all MS
operating system patches. If you haven't, download them from another
machine outside your network and burn to cd-r. If you can't search out
the security issues and compromises yourself, call in a professional
computer repair person to do it for you.

Malke

 

[patricko]

might add spybot

| (e-mail address removed) wrote:
|
| > Our LAN seems to be sending billions of packets over our
| > DSL connection. We have to reboot our computers to get it
| > to stop - and reset. We have one computer on XP Home and
| > the other on XP Professional. We've had this in-home
| > network for about 2 years, and have had this problem
| > intermittently until the last 2-3 months. I am lucky to
| > be able to stay connected long enough to send this email!
| >
| > Please help. What can we do?
|
| Immediately disconnect all computers from the network and be sure you
| are off the Internet. Scan all computers with current antivirus using
| updated definitions. It certainly sounds like you've got some computers
| turned into zombies by a trojan. Be sure you've applied all MS
| operating system patches. If you haven't, download them from another
| machine outside your network and burn to cd-r. If you can't search out
| the security issues and compromises yourself, call in a professional
| computer repair person to do it for you.
|
| Malke
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