Re: Cable modem activity light continuously flashes

From: Duane Arnold (notme_at_notme.com)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:45:05 GMT

Moe Hair <mohair@nospam.com> wrote in
news:Xns94AE9E6D8159mohair@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net:

> I was just wondering if I'm the only one who hears my hard drive crank
> on occasion, with the activity light flashing. I know it could be
> spyware. I've done plenty of sweeps in the last few days with
> numerous programs, not to mention virus checks. I've also run tlist
> -s to see what my 4 svchost.exe processes are doing (nothing out of
> the ordinary) and also check my task manager regularly to see all the
> processes running.
>
> I know it could be Windows accessing the net or the Norton AV program,
> or even Zone Alarm blocking incoming missiles.
>
> Do any or all of you notice your activity light flashes on a regular
> basis?
>
The activity light flashing is a normal occurrence on the router. You want
to know if packets are leaving a machine, then use Ethereal (free use
Google) will tell you.

You want to see what connections are being made on the machine; you can use
Active Ports (free). I like to put an Active Ports short-cut in the Startup
folder to see what's happening at the boot with a clear picture of events.

You want to see what's using SVChost.exe because Spyware or a Trojan can
use SVChost.exe on their behalf; you use Process Explorer (free) to look at
the processes that are using SVChost.exe.

You want to better protect the LAN, then use IPsec that's on the NT base
O/S to supplement the router and any host base FW on the machine.

http://www.petri.co.il/block_ping_traffic_with_ipsec.htm

http://www.analogx.com/contents/articles/ipsec.htm

The AnalogX zip file has a SecPol file that can be applied to the machine
to protect the ports.

You can use the Host to help protect on outbound connections by spyware.

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://accs-net.com/hosts/HostsToggle/

BTW, if svchost.exe is not running out of the system32 directory, it's a
Trojan.

HTH

Duane :)

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