alot of outbound internet traffic?

cj001 · 29-01-2009 12:39am #1

I was looking around my McAfee security centre and the part about internet traffic seamed to show more outbound traffic than inbound, thats not right is it? (inbound=7.87 & outbound=10.05 GB for this month).

encryptix · 29-01-2009 12:41am

does seem a little odd, but then whats the pc used for?

cj001 · 29-01-2009 1:06am

its me mas laptop, ive being using it to download, she just uses it for the internet the odd day, its not even a month old.

Adam · 29-01-2009 3:20am

if you're using a torrent program and not removing completed downloads you will generally start to seed them automatically, check to see if you removed your downloads.

cj001 · 29-01-2009 1:29pm

Arghhh this thing wiped my reply and asked me to login Again when i tried to submit my reply!

anyway there are no torrent programmes on this laptop, i use ninja and sometime 66 stage to download, the only things i can think of are google desktop, vaio update or McAfee itself. in traffic monitor there are 13 active programmes. maybe they all contribute to the overall outbound traffic volume? and if so what type of information is leaving my mams computer?

[theres a cool little part in traffic monitor where it lets me see the port & ip address of each active programmes, from there i can trace the ip address and then further break that down to Map View, Registrant View & Network View]

Adam · 29-01-2009 1:47pm

is it on a home network?

cj001 · 29-01-2009 7:35pm

well yes i suppose, cause im connecting wirelessly to the modem, theres also a pc on the same modem but there not linked as far as i know.

alot of outbound internet traffic?

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