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Heavy Usage whilst idling
27-04-2011 12:01 AM
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I do not have wireless on, I have run a full virus scan, checked that nothing else was running, checked that there was not any MS download, and finally rang PN support, but they say they could not help either.
Please, has anybody any ideas for what is causing all these phantom activity.
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27-04-2011 12:51 AM
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27-04-2011 3:01 PM
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I have done a full scan with AVG but it has not found anything. I think that whatever it is, is my IE because the phantom connection happen only when I am on line using IE.
I would be grateful for any advice, as it is eating up my allowance rapidly, as well as slowing me down.
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27-04-2011 3:14 PM
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It could be a number of things, tool bars, plug-ins. What page where you on at the time? Have you got updates to warn you before downloading as there's a lot they could be using if you haven't.
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Re: Heavy Usage whilst idling
27-04-2011 3:27 PM
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There is a tool called Wireshark, whose job is to capture all the network packets sent in & out of your machine, and to help you analyse where they are coming from/going to, and what they are for. Plusnet recommend using this tool when analysing slow performance caused by traffic management. The tool can be equally used to see what rogue connections are being made, and where the data is coming from or going to. You may need something of a techie head on to use it though...
If IE continues to get in the way, an alternative solution might be just to stop using it, and install something like Firefox or Google Chrome instead.
Using FTTC since 2011. Currently on 80/20 Unlimited Fibre Extra.
Re: Heavy Usage whilst idling
27-04-2011 3:30 PM
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The only additional toolbar I habe is Google
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27-04-2011 3:37 PM
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also keep en eye in case it's windows update downloading packages
Re: Heavy Usage whilst idling
27-04-2011 4:05 PM
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Thank you. I run wireshark, but as you said it is understanding what it means, one entry eg
Time Source Destination Info
0.076888 209.85.147.103 192.168.x.x TCP https > pdap-np [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1648 Win=65535 Len=0.
where 192.168.x.x I think it is me
But in any case knowing where is going or coming is secondary, the root of the problem is what is initiating these connections?.
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27-04-2011 4:27 PM
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edit: meh missed the reply with the google addon reply, would suggest you kill it
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27-04-2011 4:36 PM
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As far as Iknow I only have Gmail, and IGoogle that I have had for years. Where are the add ons? How do I remove them?. Thanks
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27-04-2011 4:44 PM
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27-04-2011 4:56 PM
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Thank you, I think that you indicated where the problem was.
For some reason (I have not done it) my Google toolbar privacy settings had been changed to send information to google, and the additional setting of “send usage statistics to Google” to ticked. As soon as removed the said settings the additional connections have disappear. Thank you again.
Re: Heavy Usage whilst idling
27-04-2011 5:07 PM
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Quote from: fxbronte WWWOBAT
Thank you. I run wireshark, but as you said it is understanding what it means, one entry eg
Time Source Destination Info
0.076888 209.85.147.103 192.168.x.x TCP https > pdap-np [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1648 Win=65535 Len=0.
where 192.168.x.x I think it is me
But in any case knowing where is going or coming is secondary, the root of the problem is what is initiating these connections?.
Yup - 192.168.x.x addresses are inside your LAN, so is likely to be yourself. In this case, the other address is important.
The trick is, once you know the IP Address, finding out who owns or uses the machine behind it. Gus used "Google" with the address, which worked well (take a look at http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/209.85.147.103).
Other ways to help identify the owner can be command-line tools like "nslookup" or "tracert", both of which can help find domain names for those addresses.
Once you know who you are connecting to, you can probably guess what the application is that is doing it. And I see you've worked that out now... 200MB is a bit cheeky for a toolbar, isn't it?
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