About this tag
The traffic tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about network traffic, including ARP poisoning detection and prevention, port forwarding with OpenVPN, and IPv6 connectivity. Users seek help configuring Windows firewall rules to filter malicious ARP traffic, troubleshoot VPN port forwarding issues when ISPs block ports, and understand how to enable IPv6 for browser traffic. The tag also includes off-topic image posts depicting traffic scenes such as city streets, buses, and traffic officers. For IT professionals and enthusiasts, the tag provides practical advice on securing network traffic and overcoming connectivity challenges in Windows environments.
  1. whoosh

    ART Driving Her Car

  2. whoosh

    ART Loose Sloanish

    :razz:
  3. whoosh

    ART Driving Through Town Black And White

    :)
  4. whoosh

    ART Bus In Town

    :)
  5. whoosh

    ART Bright City Lights Style

    :D
  6. Harlock21

    Windows 10 Help in preventing ARP poisoning

    Hi all, It seems that I am ARP spoofed. Recently I have installed the XARP application which is able to detect only ARP poisoning; thanks to it I had the proof that I am victim of such attacks. It seems that my Linux system is not affected by this fraudolent practice while my Windows firewall...
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    Windows 10 port forwarding and openvpn

    scenerio: hamachi works fine and i can connect to the other pc just fine. I installed openvpn and can not get the port forward to work. I contacted my isp and port forward is blocked unless i buy a actual static ip from them. The network from them is ONE public ip that serves the entire 700...
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    Windows 10 Switch to and send requests with IPv6: check compatibility?

    Assume I am sitting in a hotel and want to connect from my local Win10 notebook to a remote web server. The connection should not be "normal" IPv4 but IPv6. The remote web server speaks IPv6. Some questions: 1.) Is Win10 out-of-the box able to use IPv6 or do I have to activate it at first...
  9. News

    AA19-024A: DNS Infrastructure Hijacking Campaign

    Original release date: January 24, 2019 Summary The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is aware of a global Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure hijacking campaign. Using compromised...
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    Windows 10 Identifying which application is generating ICMP Traffic

    Hello All, We are observing lots of ICMP traffic from a windows system. However, we are not able to identify which application is generating this traffic. We tried to check by using "netstat -abn" however, it shows only TCP and UDP traffic, but not ICMP. Is there any feature or utility in...
  11. P

    Windows 7 Block temporarily all (outgoing) traffic WITHOUT firewall?

    Is it possible to block temporarily all (outgoing) Internet traffic WITHOUT using the build-in Windows firewall? I guess there is a simple utility which offers a "traffic OFF" button which obviously cuts all traffic until the user re-pushes him. Is there such a tool or another simple way for...
  12. News

    TA16-144A: WPAD Name Collision Vulnerability

    Original release date: May 23, 2016 Systems Affected Windows, OS X, Linux systems, and web browsers with WPAD enabled Overview Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Domain Name System (DNS) queries that are intended for resolution on private or enterprise DNS servers have been observed reaching...
  13. Neemobeer

    Real-time Threat traffic

    Just a cool site that shows real-time attacks on honeypots deployed across the world. Link Removed
  14. Tiago

    Windows 10 How I can change use of Network by process?

    I have a Internet broadband Adsl. 0.5 mbps Up & 10 mbps Down. My question is about Upload, when I sent a video to YouTube, for example, YouTube use all Upload (something like 60 KB/s), It is impossible to access the Internet. The download does not work without upload. Is needed to make...
  15. News

    TA15-240A: Controlling Outbound DNS Access

    Original release date: August 28, 2015 Systems Affected Networked systems Overview US-CERT has observed an increase in Domain Name System (DNS) traffic from client systems within internal networks to publically hosted DNS servers. Direct client access to Internet DNS servers, rather than...
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    Windows 7 Anonymous network traffic to public IPs

    Hi, I have windows 7 SP1 installed pcs in my office network belongs to workgroup. these system traffic shows through router(command: show ip accounting) that many public ip address is accessing ,which utilze my network bandwidth in large size.How can i block these traffic? Why happening these...
  17. News

    TA14-017A: UDP-based Amplification Attacks

    Original release date: January 17, 2014 | Last revised: March 07, 2014 Systems Affected Certain UDP protocols have been identified as potential attack vectors: DNS NTP SNMPv2 NetBIOS SSDP CharGEN QOTD BitTorrent Kad Quake Network Protocol Steam Protocol Overview A Distributed Reflective...
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    Windows 7 Unwanted Network Activity

    Running Win 7, 64 bit. Watching the Task Manager, Networking tab, there is an almost constant stream of incoming traffic, even after I have closed Outlook and IE Explorer. I would like to find out which program is requesting the traffic, where it is coming from, and stop it unless I specifically...
  19. JimL

    Windows 7 What is Roaming?

    Almost every search I run locally turns up hits with "roaming" in the path. I spent a while on the internet trying to find out exactly what the roaming folder was for. It seems the more I read the less I knew. Everyone seems to have a different idea on how to define or use roaming. I think...
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    Windows 7 How can i block all incoming and outgoing traffic except Teamviewer?

    Hello everyone. I'm trying to figure how i can block all incoming and outgoing traffic except Teamviewer? I've been trying to achieve this with the Windows 7 firewall but no succes. Anybody any ideas?