connectoid status has HUGE recieve count

[bob]

The Local Area connection status window shows HUGE
recieved count. I have confirmed no ACTUAL inbound
traffic from the ISP.

4 megabytes in a 1/2 hour and it keeps growing forever.

These 2k packets come from inside the machine itself. I
know a device is spewing into the network input buffer at
some level, but I dont know which device (not a device as
in the device manager, but a low level device like
\device\serial0 for example).

I used TDImon from Sysinternals.com to monitor TCP and
UDP activity on the port and I see thousands of
IRP_MJ_DEVICE_DEVICE_CONTROL request being made
dynamically. Each one is 2k, so the input count climbs 2k
for each one.

I also see the activity on Windows task manager in the
Networking tab. I assure you these 2k packets do not come
off the internet, my hub never blinks. I have also hooked
up the same physical connection to a different system
configured manually with the same ip and there is no such
traffic on it.


1. How do I find the device responsible?
3. How do I fix it?

Thank you.


Here are two infinitely recurring lines from TDImon:
(except the time stamp keeps incrementing)

----------- line 1
Time Process Object Request
4.30054342 explorer.exe:122 80D289E0 IRP_MJ_DEVICE_CONTROL

Local Remote Result
TCP:<none> (blank) SUCCESS

Other
IOCTL_TCP_QUERY_INFORMATION_EX

---------------- line 2
Time Process Object Request
4.30225816 explorer.exe:122 FFB5ABB0 IRP_MJ_DEVICE_CONTROL

Local Remote Result
TCP:<none> (blank) SUCCESS

Other
IOCTL_TCP_QUERY_INFORMATION_EX

 

[E]

Explorer.exe is busy keeping your network connection status
icon accurate.

Disable the "Show icon in notification area when connected" option
from Network Connections/Properties page and that should
solve it.