"Idle" network packet activity?

[nick666za]

It seems as if my home network (2x XP machines via marconi router) is running more traffic in idle times tan before (3 packets per second send & recieve) without any other processes running on the networks.

This seems a bit high to me, and googling it got no results. I know viruses / trojans sometimes show network activity when stealing info, but it's a lot higher than 3 packets in my experience.

It seems like something is constantly checking/updating status. Can't see what, though...

Anyone else think this is abnormal?

 

[thesones]

have you tried 'netstat -o' from command prompt?

 

[nick666za]

Didn't know about netstat. Thanks. Found out (silly, actually) that it was my Synergy jabbering away. Should have known better, but thanks.

Used netstat -b which gave me the name of the calling executable. Very handy indeed.

 

[thesones]

cool, glad I could help