DHCP Client service going doolally!

I am running both FileMon and Process Explorer from sysinternals
(http://www.sysinternals.com/).

Using these programs I can see that the DHCP Client service is continually
creating temporary files in the C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService
folder. The filename is <hex number>.tmp with an ever increasing hex number
every second!!

This seems to start a few minutes after booting up. If I stop the DHCP
Client service then this problem stops, when I restart the service it starts
creating the tmp files again!

Does anyone know why this is happening? My AV program is picking up these
files and scanning them so I really want to resolve this problem.

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Any help much appreciated
Mark Baldwin

ok I seem to have fixed this problem

The file creation problem is always preceeded by explorer.exe opening
upnp.dll, reading some data then closing it. This happens continuously every
second.

Disabling UPNP on my router has stopped the explorer/upnp.dll issue as well
as the DHCP Client tmp file issue!

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Best regards
Mark Baldwin

"Mark" <swozz_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am running both FileMon and Process Explorer from sysinternals
>(http://www.sysinternals.com/).
>
> Using these programs I can see that the DHCP Client service is continually
> creating temporary files in the C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService
> folder. The filename is <hex number>.tmp with an ever increasing hex
> number every second!!
>
> This seems to start a few minutes after booting up. If I stop the DHCP
> Client service then this problem stops, when I restart the service it
> starts creating the tmp files again!
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening? My AV program is picking up these
> files and scanning them so I really want to resolve this problem.
>
> --
> Any help much appreciated
> Mark Baldwin
>
>