Billions of packets sent in the Local Area Connection Status Window.

[Chris]

When I click on the network icon in the systray, the
amount of packets sent is in the high billions, while the
recieved packets is only a few thousand. Even if I reboot
the machine, the packets sent are already about 200
billion by the time the little icon loads in the systray.
It does disturb web surfing. I have ran a full virus
scan, downloaded all available updates, but nothing has
worked. It just started doing this at the end of last
week. I haven't made any changes to my machine lately.
Thanks for any help.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

When I click on the network icon in the systray, the
amount of packets sent is in the high billions, while the
recieved packets is only a few thousand. Even if I reboot
the machine, the packets sent are already about 200
billion by the time the little icon loads in the systray.
It does disturb web surfing. I have ran a full virus
scan, downloaded all available updates, but nothing has
worked. It just started doing this at the end of last
week. I haven't made any changes to my machine lately.
Thanks for any help.

It isn't possible for your network card to send 200 billion packets in
the time that it takes the computer to reboot.

This could be a network card driver problem. Download and install the
latest XP drivers for your network card.
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[Steve]

I'm getting the same thing.

Within my home LAN, it looks like it even takes place
within computers when I unplug the WAN.

But the same thing is occuring.

Steve

 

[Chris]

I completely wiped the machine and started reloading XP.
Then I started doing the Windows update. Next thing I
know, it has the same problem. So I wipe the computer
again. Then reload XP and selectively do the windows
updates. I did all the critical updates, but not the
security updates. The problem has not come back. Guess
that means MS missed a bad patch.

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