explorer.exe using memory uncontrollably

message from hardhead on 30 May 2004

i'm sure by now, you'v tryed restore, i would try safe
mode last good config. and unplug the second machine for
now. if you do get online, i would get a trojan/worm scan
at least.
sharing on my XP Pro machine - I had gone through the
Home networking wizard a couple of times and on the last
instance had accidentally told it to bridge my 2 nework
connections (one to the DSL modem and the other to my
second machine). Durig the process I got a warning that
there was an error with some sort of Spool
process/service (I sure wish now that I'd written it
down). Pretty sure that I didn't need the network
bridge, I went in and tried to delete it as soon as the
machine rebooted. Now:
Properties window for my network connections (because of
#1?)
memopry from the moment the machine is booted. I've sat
and watched it in Task Manager get up to 2 Gb of memory
used, over less than 10 minutes before the machine ran
out of virtual memory and crashed.
every night and have had no problems indicated by that -
internet use for the machine is limited and I do not
recall any suspicious emails in the past few days.
Everything seems to have started with my changing the
network settings.

Archived message: explorer.exe using memory uncontrollably (Microsoft WinXP)