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Help!

I have two PCs, both with Windows XP - one with XP Home (bought in Jamaica) and the other one XP Media Center Edition (bought in Germany). I am recognizing something very strange with the Jamaican PC:

both are permanently connected to cable broadband Internet connection (same company, same modem). Both have ZoneAlarm firewall and AVG free Home Edition. But while ZoneAlarm replaces the network connection on the German XP and shows properly the Internet usage (incoming/outgoing traffic), on the Jamaican PC the network icon is still besides the ZoneAlarm icon (system tray) and only the network symbol indicates incoming and outgoing traffic but the ZoneAlarm icon shows just the "Z" but no traffic at all. Even more suspicious, the Jamaican PC seems to broadcast all the times without any stop INTO the Internet, based on the nearly permanently lightened outgoing part of the network icon. Really, nearly permanently.

That concerns me.

I tried to find out, if there's any malicious software on my Jamaican PC by using Ad Aware, latest version. Besideds some spy cookies (tracking cookies), Ad Aware couldn't find any bad software. I also removed the hidden SecuROM broadcast software which came with the game "Spore" (EA Games), based on instructions found on the Internet, completely and successfully. Still, the Jamaican PC broadcasts and broadcasts.

Here in Jamaica, Microsoft offers for the Caribbean countries some special edition of the XP versions, at a relatively low price in relation to the prices in Europe, all for approximatly for 1/3 of the regular price. Companies and government agencies get them at even better rates. I own an own company (IT).

Who can help me to find out, why my Jamaican PC (PC bought in Jamaica, too, but many parts made in China, ha ha ha) broadcasts permanently. I also need to know, what is being transfered into the Internet, and to which address it is being transferred.

Thanks for your help.

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