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Originally Posted by cybmole
that link explains to to remove them, but not how they got there in the first place.
is this something that only happen to laptops which get connected to lots of different networks?
my desktop PC seems un-infested
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Originally Posted by Microsoft
Consider the following scenario:
You have a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
You enable the wireless Hosted Network feature to use the Virtual WiFi function on this computer.
You restart this computer without stopping the Virtual WiFi.
You start the wireless Hosted Network again.
In this scenario, a new Microsoft 6to4 adapter is unexpectedly created in Device Manager. Additionally, if you restart the computer multiple times, multiple Microsoft 6to4 adapters are created.
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Every boot created more tunnels - its to do with IPv4/IPv6 on Virtual WiFi networks. Is Virtual a 'normal' configuration - I can't remember and I don't have WiFi here. Basically MS was breeding tunnel interfaces like rabbits on Terisa's computer and quantifaces was trying to get everyone of them to connect - 700 attempts on a 5sec timeout = 58 minutes. Such things are sometimes called viruses.
The larger puzzle is that this is not a new issue - the Ryan Victory blog post is May 2010; the MS one is a bit hard to work out - but at the latest it appears to be Sept 2011 - I would expect the patch to have been included in a Windows Update.
BR