Quote from silvermotion:
another possibility is that windows xp (since sp1) purposefully limits the number of open TCPIP connection to 10 (was unlimited before).
you can fix that using the EVENT ID 4226 patch
http://www.trustyfiles.com/help-sw-xpsp2.php
i always change mine from 10 to 100 000.
it tremendously increases the speed of my bittorent downloads.
that should also increase your speed by a wide margin.
silvermotion,
I was going to run the patch you suggested, but my malware protection intercepted it. Do you think it's safe to go ahead and run it anyway? (I guess that means are you pretty sure it hasn't had some adverse impact on your system?)
Here's the report:
This object has a file size of 39,936 bytes, it is most frequently called EVID4226PATCH.EXE and is most frequently located in the %desktop%\evid4226patch223d-en\ folder.
This file is considered unsafe and is part of the malware group, Potentially harmful program HackTool.AB. It was first seen on Monday, May 14 2007. It has been seen frequently by 1,272 users in this section of the community. The file was first seen in The UNITED KINGDOM but has been seen in other locations, including SPAIN.
EVID4226PATCH.EXE has been seen to perform the following behaviors:
- This Process Creates Other Processes On Disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Executes a Process
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
EVID4226PATCH.EXE has been the subject of the following behaviors:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Executed as a Process
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Terminated as a Process
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