I have now ruled out virus, trojan, adware and denial of service etc.
Another thing which I noticed is when I monitored the SMTP service the outbound connection refused goes up by about 10,000 a second (which is far far far too fast. It should only be one or two every hours or so at the most)...
Sophos is installed with mailmonitor and all is clean, updated and scanned several times.
I use a checkpoint 2 firewall and have checked for security holes and all seems fine.
I will however check the smtp and see if required logon is activated (I think it is but i check anyway).
Thanks so...
Windows 2k server, all patches all services packs etc. Exchange enterprise. Raid5, Dual PIII 1.3Ghz 1.5Gb ram 40 Users. AD controller but not PDC emulator. No roles installed.
inetinfo.exe runs constantly at about 99%. If I stop the SMTP service it goes back to 0-2% which is what it should...
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