about connection Icon (sending bytes)

[SIEG]

usually connection icon glows blue when sending bytes ( downloading, surfing) but today when I connected to Internet the connection icon glows blue(sending bytes) even if i don't download or surfing internet explorer, and the conncetion icon never become black, (when not any byte pass)

[bAdWaYz]

If you are talking about the two little tv looking icons in the task tray thats your local area connection icon. This would indicate there is traffic either being sent or recived from inside or outside your network. Are you on broadband "cable or dsl"? There are many reasons you could be seeing traffic while not activly surfing or such. Some app's use the internet in the backgroud and sometimes you get packets of info from your isp's downstream servers. If you really want to see whats coming and going the easy thing to do would be to install a firewall such as ZA or the like and let it run for a while then take a look at the logs.

[SIEG]

I installed zone alarm, and I notice it is have somthing to do with, "Generic host process win32, if it is active the connection icon glowa blue all the time

[bAdWaYz]

That could be a lagit windows networking process but it could also not be. If you don't already have it go download AVG (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1) update it and run a scan. You may also want to post a hijack this log in the Cyber Safety forum. Sometimes trojans or other nasties can use your connection and run in the backgroud like that. If you scan and everything comes up clean start making note of any odd ip addresses that are sending incoming or outgoing traffic.

[SIEG]

I downloaded AVG (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1) and scanned, and I found "infected objects 1" the infected file's name is Hidden Extension. vbs.

oh I forgot my local area connection was normal (sending and receiving traffic only when I download something or surfing ) but since I updated my windows xp pro, this problem happend (sending and receicving traffic all the time, nonstop)

[SIEG]

since I deleted "Hidden Extension. vbs" the problem solved.

thank you for your pactience.

[bAdWaYz]

I'm glad to hear its going well. I would advise you at this point if you haven't already to download and install Service pack 2 for XP