Got good, up to date, virus protection? The only time I've seen this happening was with a PC infected with a trojan horse. A simple netstat -a *should* let you know what's going on. Also, have a look at the running processes, and see what you don't recognise.
If you're feeling really paranoid, gateway it with a through a linux box and use tcpdump or IPTraf to have a look at the packets/connections. Cheers, Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 2:44 PM Subject: [SLUG] Mysterious busy-ness with Windows Internet + Evolution/Mozilla/Ximian woes : I'm sorry don't flame me! My kids still use Windows on the Net. I notice the : line seems incredibly busy even when no obvious user caused transactions are : occurring. Any ideas how I can monitor what's happening? This doesn't happen : with Linux! : : Ah me, so you noticed the headers were from Outlook. That's because I cannot : get Evolution to #@&**^ing install itself via Red Carpet. I'm getting the : dreaded cannot resolve dependencies, recursion too deep message. I tried : installing the current MOzilla via it. Many Megs later on a dial-up : everything looked fine. No messages. But it refused to start up, complaining : it had been installed wrongly! Repeated the process, same result. Nothing I : could see on their support forum. : : I'm wrapped in the potential of Ximian Gnome but finding these little things : don't help its acceptance by colleagues/family. : : : -- : SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ : More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
