XP uploads severla times more than downloads in dialup

[Avinash]

Hello

I am connecting with the same ISP that I used from over a
year with Win98. As soon as I put a new computer on line,
I saw that WinXP was uploading 5-10 times more volume than
downloading. This ate up the precious dialup bandwidth and
the browsing became painful and eventually at a
standstill. Using Panda online virus cleaner indicated
that several programs were sending the data, (whatever it
was)and installing a firewall and denying such programs
improved things a little. Now with the firewall, ony the
URLs that begin with www seem to get resolved. URLs such
as newyork.xyz.com do not. As soon as I disable the FW,
they do.
So, the questions are
1. Why WInXP (home or pro) is so vulnerable to these
attacks? Win98 did not have these issues.

2. Do the adware/viruses come built in ihe XP OS? It did
not take more than 5 min wuth dialup to make a new PC
useless.

3. What is the solution? Running with a FW is not a
solution.


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Thanks

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hello

I am connecting with the same ISP that I used from over a
year with Win98. As soon as I put a new computer on line,
I saw that WinXP was uploading 5-10 times more volume than
downloading. This ate up the precious dialup bandwidth and
the browsing became painful and eventually at a
standstill. Using Panda online virus cleaner indicated
that several programs were sending the data, (whatever it
was)and installing a firewall and denying such programs
improved things a little. Now with the firewall, ony the
URLs that begin with www seem to get resolved. URLs such
as newyork.xyz.com do not. As soon as I disable the FW,
they do.
So, the questions are
1. Why WInXP (home or pro) is so vulnerable to these
attacks? Win98 did not have these issues.

2. Do the adware/viruses come built in ihe XP OS? It did
not take more than 5 min wuth dialup to make a new PC
useless.

3. What is the solution? Running with a FW is not a
solution.


Please reply using the email address provided after
removing _nospam.

Thanks

I've replied by E-mail, as you requested, and in the news group. If
you reply to me, please do so only in the news group.

It's dangerous to connect a Windows XP computer directly to the
Internet for any length of time without a firewall running. I've seen
a worm infect a computer within 10 seconds of making a dial-up
Internet connection.

XP is a much more complex operating system then Win98, and XP has many
security holes that Win98 doesn't. Internet hackers are quick to
exploit those holes.

Unfortunately, there's no way to use the Internet safely without
running a firewall. Also, be sure to install critical security
updates from Windows Update as soon as they become available.

Download, install, and run some spyware removal programs such as
Ad-Aware SE and Spybot Search and Destroy.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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