Bajillion Packets

[Deman]

Okay, I have this really funky problem.

Look at how many packets my laptop has sent out in just 15 minutes.

My laptop has always done this, even when I turned it on for the first time. Does anybody have a clue what could be causing that? I'm fairly certain it isn't a trojan or DOS attack or anything because it was doing that before I've even downloaded anything, and it's never even bogged down the network.

 

[Amayirot Akago]

HOLY CRAP! That's one ****load of packets.

I'm not too experienced in this field, but I'd get a firewall or something similar.

Or maybe you've got a crapload of spyware.

 

[Deman]

I have run the latest definitions of AVG(my antivirus) Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search and Destroy...

none of them have picked up a thing.

 

[DragonDude]

That is very bizarre, sending out an ammount that much larger than what you're recieving... I have to say I've never seen something like that before. Usually it's the other way around, but nowhere near that much of a difference.
Laptops use NICs just like desktops when they're using a direct connection, right?
If you've scanned for spyware and adware, and know it isn't some kind of attack, the only thing I can think of is a fault in the hardware.

 

[GhostfaceKillah]

microsoft is stealing your identity

 

[Smith|]

Okay, I have this really funky problem.

Look at how many packets my laptop has sent out in just 15 minutes.

My laptop has always done this, even when I turned it on for the first time. Does anybody have a clue what could be causing that? I'm fairly certain it isn't a trojan or DOS attack or anything because it was doing that before I've even downloaded anything, and it's never even bogged down the network.

I'm guessing it's a bug or something.

 

[SaiyanPrideXIX]

What kind of ethernet card do you have in that thing? Maybe that's the problem.

 

[Deman]

Yeah, after talking with several people about it (I'm a psychology major living smack dab in a hall full of computer science majors) we've all come to the conclusion that it is a hardware bug of some sort.

SaiyanPrideXIX, It is an Intel Pro/100 VE