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Disappearing 2GB allowance
17-06-2011 9:52 AM
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Traffic management breakdown shows the traffic to be 99% HTTP and 1% streaming.
Wireless is used, WPA security was set and I changed the SSID & password, increased encryption to WPA2 and set a MAC exclusion limit on a different router to limit access to her PC.
When the Vista PC boots in safe mode there is no significant wireless traffic. When it boots in normal mode there is about 250 kbits/s of traffic on the wireless constantly, which is consistent with the rate of usage clocked by Plusnet. The PC has Norton Internet Security and scans clean with Malwarebytes and PrevX too.
Looking at the connections there's a single TCP connection from PID 1140 using local Port 49706 to Port 80 on IP 88.221.84.11 which has reverse DNS a88-221-84-11.deploy.akamaitechnologie....
Akamai do content distribution networks, so seem likely to be legit - but would would the process be that was hell bent on downloading flat out 24/7 ?
Re: Disappearing 2GB allowance
17-06-2011 10:09 AM
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17-06-2011 10:21 AM
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Have you looked to see if kservice is installed? If it is uninstall it! (it was what the iPlayer and 4oD used)
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17-06-2011 10:26 AM
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17-06-2011 10:52 AM
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17-06-2011 11:08 AM
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Windows Update had checked the day before and was up to date, it didn't say it was in the process of downloading anything. Also 2GB seems too much even for Windows updates !
I found some similar smelling threads :-
http://www.majestic12.co.uk/projects/dsearch/mj12bot.php
https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=61901
although quite old the process ID, connecting to akamai etc seems similar. I think I'll bring her PC home and get stuck into what the processes are with a software firewall on there to guide me - thanks.
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17-06-2011 8:23 PM
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Some of the sites it latches on to are things like Akamai, Windows update, Microsoft, Norton etc but then it goes and latches onto a random Entanet address.
Not pinned it down yet, but I can turn it on and off with a firewall.
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17-06-2011 9:08 PM
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18-06-2011 1:18 AM
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18-06-2011 12:40 PM
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653
http://www.konradp.com/products/autostart-and-process-viewer/
http://www.teamcti.com/pview/prcview.htm
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18-06-2011 2:42 PM
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At least 2 Gbytes per day of download have stopped. Funny thing is there was practically no upload and I can't find any files of over 100k created during that time, apart from some Norton update definitions.
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19-06-2011 6:45 AM
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- Uninstall Norton and reboot, it's the biggest heap of rubbish out there
- Install Microsoft Security Essentials
- Install Malwarebytes Antimalware and run
- Install CCleaner and run
- As an added bonus download auslogics disk defrag and run
These can all be found at www.filehippo.com and are free
Congratulations, your PC is now cleaner and much faster
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19-06-2011 11:02 AM
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19-06-2011 11:39 AM
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jelv i have tried the defraggler and not impressed one i use is Perfect Disc 10
another program worth using to check process,s is " Hijack This "
AND Norton is the biggest pile of poop around
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19-06-2011 12:44 PM
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I think you will find that that title belongs to Windows !
Reading this thread reminds me of all the reasons why I jumped ship from Windows to Ubuntu.
Constantly battling against the PC to do the simplest thing, when all you want to do is some web browsing or write a document, but instead throwing your hands in the air in despair and shouting "WHAT THE HELL IS IT DOING NOW !!!"
Running Windows is like being a parent to a helpless baby, keeping you awake at night, takes forever to wake up when you want to play, constantly needs feeding with updates, checking security every minute of the day, being on constant alert for what unexpected thing it's going to do next, and clearing up the poop after it has crashed again.
Running Ubuntu is more like an old friend, always available, cooperates with almost anything you ask of it and does it then and there, it can give you a full update in less than a minute, you only have to visit it's home every six months for a refreshing break, it costs you NOTHING to be up with the latest and greatest, and it NEVER lets you down.
As for the original problem of tracing active network connections, in Ubuntu you just open 'Firestarter' and look at the active connections to see what is going on.
If in the unlikely event more debugging is required then clicking the [Policy] button give you access to the networking controls, then selectively pass/block each connection/protocol/port. Job done !
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