Network status page (304,942,679,766 packets sent)?

[moxyspirit]

Hardwire connection:

I start my compaq tablet and go to the network status pages. Packets sent immediately it is counting up into the billions. Virus? spyware? what?

Wireless connection is fine.

Thanks in Advance!

Phil

[cluberti]

Well, yes, that's a lot of packets. Getting a network trace running via netmon or wireshark during this time would show you where those packets are going - and also, those counters are cumulative, so they'll keep increasing as you send/receive packets for the uptime of the machine, and only reset on reboot or removal of the network adapter from the machine.