Probably an old topic, but I couldn't find the answers with searches. Using WinXP upgrade from Win98SE.. dual booting on seperate partitions on an AMD1ghz, 256mg PC2100 DDR dram, FIC AD11 m/b, blah blah blah... Problem --> installed ZoneAlarm and a packet sniffer. Upon rebooting my machine this eve (I've had XP and ZoneAlarm installed for 2-3wks now) ZoneAlarm showed a file xfer in progress. Turned on the sniffer.. showed I was sending/receiving to windowsupdate.com. Since I first installed XP, I have set it to NOTIFY me of updates, so I can CHOOSE when/if to install them.
I do have a log of 546 packets that were sent to MS, so if anyone can read them in some fashion that would let me know what was sent, I'd really appreciate it. I used Win98SE with ZoneAlarm previously and never had anything like this. I did allow ZoneAlarm to let Generic Win Host 32 Service and a program it didn't name (literally) to act as a server, but IE would not work without them???? Win98SE never asked that from ZoneAlarm.
It really bothers me that my PC was sending/receiving info without my knowledge, unless I had these programs installed that showed what the F*** was happening, I'd have never known.
Thanks in advance,
A Noob whose not a N00B
I do have a log of 546 packets that were sent to MS, so if anyone can read them in some fashion that would let me know what was sent, I'd really appreciate it. I used Win98SE with ZoneAlarm previously and never had anything like this. I did allow ZoneAlarm to let Generic Win Host 32 Service and a program it didn't name (literally) to act as a server, but IE would not work without them???? Win98SE never asked that from ZoneAlarm.
It really bothers me that my PC was sending/receiving info without my knowledge, unless I had these programs installed that showed what the F*** was happening, I'd have never known.
Thanks in advance,
A Noob whose not a N00B
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