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Hello and sorry if i am not posting this in the right forum. Ever since i installed a bunch of windows updates, (not service pack 2 yet) i been having constant internet activity, i am currently using dial up and being receiving more than 3k bytes a second for no aparent reason. i ran spyware doctor and removed all of it, but it didnt help my problem. I think the problem is related to windows update because i get the windows update icon on my tray, nevertheless it says downloading updates: 0% and never changes i cannot pause it or anything. And removing the windows automatic updates on control panel will also remove the downloading icon, but it wont stop the constant activity and bytes receiving. I am asking for help, i tried to restore my system but it wont let me. I am getting dsl next week and i would suck to have the same problem. Thanks in advance, Israel.

No i am using spyware doctor for antispyware. so far i've received 60 megabytes. this is nuts! Israel.

None of the above Checked for viruses and found none either. I think i'll just wait and see if whatever its downloading is done when i wake up tomorrow. Doesn not seem to be any reasons for this. Thanks a lot for your help, and have fun on doom

Thanks for the quick response and all the help, Well yeah i did what you told me to. Closed all programs and ran netstat -ano, resulted in only one established connection to: 64.4.20.93. Arin WHOIS has this IP registered as Hotmail. I dont know what am i receiving from them, but in an hour and a half connected i have already received 30 megabytes (just browsing a few sites)which looks pretty wierd and never happened before. Israel