Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ARP-Protokoll

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:22:47 +0100
On Sunday 10 Oct 2004 4:56 pm, Freenet-Old wrote:
> Dear Sirs and Mesdames,
>
> I hope you could help me. Yesterday I installed etheral to oberseve
> my Cable-Modem-Internet connection. Why? Since a cuple of weeks I can
> see flashing lights on my modem - indicating network traffic - but no
> program ist open nor the IE is running. My provider shows me 1 GB of
> upload. Hmm. Etheral showed me, that when all known web-applications
> on my PC are closed, 100 % of entwork traffic come from using the
> ARP-Protokol, broadcasting somthing like "who is" or "hihi..."? How
> can I identify the source of the traffic and how can I stop it? It
> would be great to hear from you.

Several well-known viruses do that. I suggest you update your anti-virus 
database and do a full scan.

-- 
Richard Urwin