December 6th 03, 05:26 PM
Hi,
When you say that you are sending outbound packets .. do
you mean that ZoneAlarm indicators are going up and down ?
Even if you are not using the Internet directly you will
still get a little background chit-chat happening (Time
Service, Windows Update ...) all sorts of little
background processes pop out to the Internet and make
various checks.
The processes you mentioned are quite common (esp. Hosts)
and do not indicate a problem.
Regards,
Tim
Why are you concerned ?
>-----Original Message-----
>Okay, this is beyond everything I can do at this point.
I have
>exhausted all my know-how :-(
>
>Something keeps sending out packets when I am not
working....I see
>outbound traffic...ZoneAlarm doesn't catch it and SpyBot
says
>nothing...Norton ran in SafeMode (but gives the message
Scan engine
>returned an error 0x20000058).
>
>Please help...what am I sending out? And does NetBios or
Host for
>Win32 have anything to do with it?
>
>George
>.
>
When you say that you are sending outbound packets .. do
you mean that ZoneAlarm indicators are going up and down ?
Even if you are not using the Internet directly you will
still get a little background chit-chat happening (Time
Service, Windows Update ...) all sorts of little
background processes pop out to the Internet and make
various checks.
The processes you mentioned are quite common (esp. Hosts)
and do not indicate a problem.
Regards,
Tim
Why are you concerned ?
>-----Original Message-----
>Okay, this is beyond everything I can do at this point.
I have
>exhausted all my know-how :-(
>
>Something keeps sending out packets when I am not
working....I see
>outbound traffic...ZoneAlarm doesn't catch it and SpyBot
says
>nothing...Norton ran in SafeMode (but gives the message
Scan engine
>returned an error 0x20000058).
>
>Please help...what am I sending out? And does NetBios or
Host for
>Win32 have anything to do with it?
>
>George
>.
>