Hey there, and thanks in advance for any help.
I am running a clean copy of Windows XP, well maintained and with quite high performance. I've fine tuned everything and it SEEMS to be running very well - and fast. Everything was running beautifully until my house mate mentioned that I was hogging the upload bandwidth ... Upon opening the "Wireless network connection status", it seems that my computer is uploading about 12 packets every second, even when no applications are running, all browsers are closed etc, and after a fresh reboot. This is still the case after having closed all possible processes. I have run NOD32, Spybots SD and Malware bytes, and all deep scans come back squeaky clean.
When I open task manager, I can see the prime suspect at the moment is lsass.exe which is one of the running system processes. It seems to be the only running process with a I/O writes rate of 3 Bytes/sec, and it never stops. So I did a search on all drives for LSASS.exe and found two of them, one is in C:/Windows/System32 and the other one is in C:/Windows/System32/dllcache.
I also downloaded a program called Netlimiter, to try to see - and limit - whatever is being uploaded. But the results are nonsense, the Netlimiter program tells me my upload rate is 0B/sec when Windows tells me the upload rate is 12 packets/sec incessantly. But it seems to know when I am uploading/downloading something I actually am aware of... I think it could be a virus, or the FBI, or worse.... Aliens?
Can you help???
Dan
I am running a clean copy of Windows XP, well maintained and with quite high performance. I've fine tuned everything and it SEEMS to be running very well - and fast. Everything was running beautifully until my house mate mentioned that I was hogging the upload bandwidth ... Upon opening the "Wireless network connection status", it seems that my computer is uploading about 12 packets every second, even when no applications are running, all browsers are closed etc, and after a fresh reboot. This is still the case after having closed all possible processes. I have run NOD32, Spybots SD and Malware bytes, and all deep scans come back squeaky clean.
When I open task manager, I can see the prime suspect at the moment is lsass.exe which is one of the running system processes. It seems to be the only running process with a I/O writes rate of 3 Bytes/sec, and it never stops. So I did a search on all drives for LSASS.exe and found two of them, one is in C:/Windows/System32 and the other one is in C:/Windows/System32/dllcache.
I also downloaded a program called Netlimiter, to try to see - and limit - whatever is being uploaded. But the results are nonsense, the Netlimiter program tells me my upload rate is 0B/sec when Windows tells me the upload rate is 12 packets/sec incessantly. But it seems to know when I am uploading/downloading something I actually am aware of... I think it could be a virus, or the FBI, or worse.... Aliens?
Can you help???
Dan