Constant Network Traffic.

First question I ask when colleagues or students pose me
this dilema is; Do you have Kazaa installed??
Kazaa and many other free sharing applications as well as
many popular media players such as Winamp come loaded with
spy ware. The spy ware installed can and does constantly
communicate with the home server whether you are running
the application it came with or not.

A simple (free) utility that I constantly run on all
systems within my administrative role is Adaware. It will
scan for and remove all spyware from your system.
You can find it here http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Try this before you do anything more drastic to your
system.

>-----Original Message-----
>Using an IBM A21m laptop with integrated 3com ethernet
>card. NIC activity light is constantly flashing and
>appears to be broadcasting out onto the network based on
>the activity lights on hub and router. I have cable
modem,
>a router, and a hub with 3 computers currently running
>(win98, win2k, winxp). When I ctl/alt/del to get to the
>task manager the network broadcast stops. As soon as I
>exit out of the task manager the network traffic starts
>again. I have tried ending various tasks, but it doesnt
>seem to make a difference. Any idea on how I can determin
>what is happening to create the traffic and ultimately
>stop it?
>.
>

Thank you for the reply. I will do what you have
suggested. I also loaded some firewall software and have
found a ton of viruses on the system. Its my son's
computer and he had no anti-virus software.

Thanks for you help.

>-----Original Message-----
>First question I ask when colleagues or students pose me
>this dilema is; Do you have Kazaa installed??
>Kazaa and many other free sharing applications as well as
>many popular media players such as Winamp come loaded
with
>spy ware. The spy ware installed can and does constantly
>communicate with the home server whether you are running
>the application it came with or not.
>
>A simple (free) utility that I constantly run on all
>systems within my administrative role is Adaware. It
will
>scan for and remove all spyware from your system.
>You can find it here http://www.lavasoftusa.com
>
>Try this before you do anything more drastic to your
>system.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Using an IBM A21m laptop with integrated 3com ethernet
>>card. NIC activity light is constantly flashing and
>>appears to be broadcasting out onto the network based on
>>the activity lights on hub and router. I have cable
>modem,
>>a router, and a hub with 3 computers currently running
>>(win98, win2k, winxp). When I ctl/alt/del to get to the
>>task manager the network broadcast stops. As soon as I
>>exit out of the task manager the network traffic starts
>>again. I have tried ending various tasks, but it doesnt
>>seem to make a difference. Any idea on how I can
determin
>>what is happening to create the traffic and ultimately
>>stop it?
>>.
>>
>.
>