yes they can.
It has been going on since yesterday and still clogging my network
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If I were you, I would run a protocol analyzer / packet sniffer & try to look more into that traffic
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also has there been any recent malware detections on the machines in question ?
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by: zhubaPosted on 2009-01-31 at 18:35:24ID: 23519734
Most likely not a virus, but merely double checking that they are in fact up to date (perhaps as a redundancy against your WSUS not updating). Can they access the WSUS server fine?