That is an incredible amount of packets. Use a sniffer program and capture some of
the packets. If you are not able to identify the packets in the capture then machine
probably has a bot installed; which is probably the case and it is launching a DoS.
The scan results just add to the fishyness of the whole thing.
If you do not have a capture program like Sniffer or Etherpeek you can get Ethereal
for free from www.ethereal.org.
Mark McConnell
CCIE #6995
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 8/1/2003 12:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Windows XP computer spewing packets
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.
John roberts
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