Someone just stopped by and asked me what could be causing his Win2k notebook PC to generate a huge temp file whenever he logs in via dial-up using a VPN. Doesn't happen when he's standalone or plugged into our LAN with his ethernet adapter. He said the file size got as large as 15gb.

I haven't heard of this before, don't really know any more details. About the only thing I can think of is maybe the dial up adapter is running in promiscuous mode. Not that I ever heard of a promiscuous mode dial up adapter. In any case 15gb is a huge amount of traffic to store, particularly over a phone line.

I'm going to ask him to bring the notebook in so I can check it out, any ideas about what could cause this?