yet another silly and prolly misplaced question...

First of all, thanks for this site, i have been using it for years and see it as the ultimate resource. I recommend it enough to own shares in it...

I have of course read the sticky but following delicate sit.

I game on my office computer (op. fashpoint, only after business hours, of course!), and have noticed that sometimes my ping on a particular MP server goes from the usually very very low (meaning 7-12) to very high (500-700), for no discernable reason, no special application running, whatever. I can see that something is going own because even my surfing on internet slows way down. (Win XP Service Pack 2 btw)

When I look at the "network activity" however i do not see any activity at all (1 GB connection), if my Norton AV was updating wouldn't I see under activity? Still have bout 3 packets a second going out.

Tricky thing is I have a real-life "sensitive" job, it is really possible that some arcane junk is on my PC, and that through some backdoor I am uploading files a la Ghostnet.

Would SUPERantispy find any of this stuff? I also have Norton, but ignore it (I don't scan at the same time, so is it ok to run both?). Also, even though I was able to instal SUPERanitspy I am not able to normally install programs (privileges).

Obviously I am trying to avoid fessing up to my sysadmin.- What would you suggest?

Sheepishly yours,

S

 

Thanks for your reply. I found the culprit----something was doing its updates at the "wrong" time...sorry for wasting your time.