Re: Help - Tried almost everything!

From: Keith W. McCammon (km_at_km.com)
Date: 11/18/03 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:41:14 -0500

You could try using a real ISP. I bet that'll clear up your problem. AOL
uses proprietary connectivity software, and one of the most contrived webs
of proxy and content servers the world over. The traffic you're seeing is
probably measuring throughput, response time, or something else that AOL
cares about so that you can be routed to some system or another.

"Rockly" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0cd001c3adde$229dae90$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Good Morning: I'm running Win 98 with McAfee Firewall 4.0
> installed. I connect to the Internet w/ America Online
> and every time I sign on, a program in my machine sends
> out an ICMP Packet. After the packet is sent, my machine
> is "pinged." The packet is sent every time, always to the
> same IP address, no matter how many times I sign off/on.
> I've looked, but can't find anything in my files. I
> installed the Firewall after I suspected a problem and
> I've used SpyBot to search the machine. Any help is most
> greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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