Does anyone know anything about a virus or some P2P software or spyware that causes the computer to send out 30 billion packets a second to the University of Wisconsin's IP range? I work for ResNet of Wheaton College and would appreciate any feedback that might be helpful. I have already tried even a complete reformatting of the OS and no luck. Thanks, Travis

By the way, I am not exaggerating at all when I say "30 billion packets/second." Any help would be great. Thanks, Travis

Come of it Travis. 30 billion packets per second is impossible. Think about it. Even the Internet backbone only works at 6 billion bits per second. 30 billion packets per second equates to something in the region of 6 terra bits per second. Even 30 billion bytes per second equates to 240 billion bits per second. Stuart

I know it is not actually sending out that amount of packets, but Windows says that it is. It is impossible for the card to do that, but something is tricking Windows into thinking that it is sending out that many packets. Anyways, does anyone have any clue about a virus that would cause that. Thanks, Travis

A quick Google http://www.google.com/search?q=DDOS%20+"University%20of%20Wisconsin" Results in a 401 results pointing to NetGear products doing just this....nasty. From one of the articles ------------------------ FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Streiff, Vince" <VStreiff@npra.org> To: ma-linux@tux.org Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:31:35 -0400 Subject: [ma-linux] Netgear equipment is DDoS'ing the University of Wisconsin Several Netgear products were (are) configured to use the University of Wisconsin's time server -- which has resulted in an unintentional Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the University of Wisconsin: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ Whether it's in the office or at home, anybody with Netgear equipment should check to see if their model is one of the culprits, and if so upgrade your firmware: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/#ToC23 - Vince J.