TS: Yes my dyslexia is getting worse.. I am now confusing port assignments.. yes it is outbound, the traffic was to Port 25, and your correct i am wrong..it is SMTP traffic not POP....

Hos, thanks for that. seems my version of process exp is now some 12mths old.. and for a d.l whore like me that is strange.. .

Didn't get to investigate the problem properly this afternoon.. found another machine on the network with a Netsky.p.. it firedup in a similar manner to what i was chasing yesterday..except it and the rest of the pc's on that segment were off yesterday.. oh and what i was chassing was spasmodic.. this netsky traffic was constant.. to the point the Wirless lan was slowed to a snails pace..slower. dead snails pace..

Soda.. only just got TCPView.. will give it a blast.. thanks..


thanks guys