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Monday, November 28, 2005

Windows XP Crippling P2P Programs

Bit-torrent downloads seemingly slow? Windows XP SP2 limits half-open connections (SYN) to a maximum of 10 (the previous limit was over 65,000). This is supposed to slow down certain viruses because their spreading strategy is to try to connect to a high amount of random IP numbers.

Read how to detect the symptoms and fix the problem.

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 #  posted by John @ 1:16 PM
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