The data led flashes almost constantly on my toshiba pcx2200 usb cable modem. Is this normal?
What is the normal activity to see in Windows (XP) Task Manager/Networking ? Typically the displayed trace idles along at a very low level of .01 % 'Network Utilization' which i assume is back and forth communication to my isp for maintaining the connection...
But then on occasion I will see increased activity - in some cases a sawtooth pattern peaking at about .1 % lasting about 10 sec, or an irregular bell curve trace plateauing at about .25 %, and less frequently an isolated spike of .5% or more.
I disabled XP Firewall/ICS, installed trial version Zone Alarm - which seemed to lessen this type of activity.
Installed 'Active Ports' which indicates nothing going on for the 11 active ports displayed.
Installed 'Trojan Hunter' and 'Trojan Remover' which yielded nothing.
Installed 'Spybot Search&Destroy', Spyware Blaster, and Ad-aware which all have helped nailing unwanted stuff.
Disabled XP auto-update and Windows Time, and Help and Support in services.
Un-installed LImewire (gnutella) and several other programs I thought might be phoning home.
As I typed this there were a half dozen or so seperate incidents of the type described including the sawtooth thing peaking at ~.2 %.
What is going on, and should I be concerned ? or am I just paranoid ?
and btw why does windows media player access the i'net when i first open it up? there seems to be no option to disable this except 'update once a week' ???
What is the normal activity to see in Windows (XP) Task Manager/Networking ? Typically the displayed trace idles along at a very low level of .01 % 'Network Utilization' which i assume is back and forth communication to my isp for maintaining the connection...
But then on occasion I will see increased activity - in some cases a sawtooth pattern peaking at about .1 % lasting about 10 sec, or an irregular bell curve trace plateauing at about .25 %, and less frequently an isolated spike of .5% or more.
I disabled XP Firewall/ICS, installed trial version Zone Alarm - which seemed to lessen this type of activity.
Installed 'Active Ports' which indicates nothing going on for the 11 active ports displayed.
Installed 'Trojan Hunter' and 'Trojan Remover' which yielded nothing.
Installed 'Spybot Search&Destroy', Spyware Blaster, and Ad-aware which all have helped nailing unwanted stuff.
Disabled XP auto-update and Windows Time, and Help and Support in services.
Un-installed LImewire (gnutella) and several other programs I thought might be phoning home.
As I typed this there were a half dozen or so seperate incidents of the type described including the sawtooth thing peaking at ~.2 %.
What is going on, and should I be concerned ? or am I just paranoid ?
and btw why does windows media player access the i'net when i first open it up? there seems to be no option to disable this except 'update once a week' ???
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