What is all this small Net traffic?

[Tindo@heart]

My Win2k box shares internet from a Win98 with ZoneAlarm. Today I noticed the net a little slow, and then noticed the Hub's lights kept flashing. I waited for it to stop but it took too long.

I looked at the Win98 dialup throughput and noticed bits traveling about 100 Bytes/s send and recieve.

I thought it may be Norton AV 2001 updating, but the taskmanager shows that it's 97% idle, and Nortan just sitting there. So I updated AV manually anyway, rebooted, and it still shows traffic.

I ran "netstat" on both machines in the DOS box, but neither show any activity.

What could it be? :huh

 

[Tindo@heart]

Sorry to alert everyone.

I got the hub lights confused

The small traffic was really from another Win98 computer running Bearshare.

I was just looking at the log and wondering why I noticed so many attempts to reach cable providers.

I was worried it may be a virus, but now I know it was just Bearshare trying to reach host.

 

[Resident_Lurker]

There's always communication between my host computer and the client, so even if you're not running anything and you see activity its probably just a system service.