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Windows XP spewing packets 1

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specialj

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One of the employees here has a Windows laptop, and in the last day, it has sent out over 1,000,000,000,000 packets, and received around 30,000. The 30,000 is a standard load, but the trillion packets seem to be a bit high. I've scanned for spyware and viruses and found nothing. I tried to nMapWin from the network, and the computer didn't respond, and when he tried to nMapWin his ports, he couldn't find himself, from his own computer. Do you have any idea what could be causing this? I'm not to keen on these packets flying around my network, and if there are security issues, I'm even less keen.

 
This is likely just Discovery Service packets. See my comments in an earlier thread: thread779-526667
 
There have been several suggestions that driver errors can cause the count to be woefully wrong. Try to update the driver for the network adapter.
 
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