SOMETHING is draining my bandwidth!

Bertie Burn

SOMETHING is draining my bandwidth! My bandwidth is always being used even when there are no obvious programs that would use it running! Whats my best bet here please.

FSL

Can you be a little more specific. What OS are you running? What are you using to monitor your bandwidth?

Bertie Burn

Hey, i am useing xp and im useing my o2 account pop up thing It has cooled down for the moment noting been taking but over the last 2 hours 300mb have been nicked.Im 100% i was wacthing and searching as to what to do and posted here and on pchelpforum.com.

LoLth

have you checked to see what processes are running?

have you checked the Windows/currentversion/RUN key (i think thats the one) to see what programs are running at startup?

download Superantispyware and spybot S&D from a different PC, restart in safemode and run them (you may need to isntall spybot in normal mode first but Superantispyware has a USB version that you can run from a USB key without having to install). Once you get the spybot.

Antoher good one is hijackthis, download and run, select to save a text file fo the result. go to www.hijackthis.de and paste in the reulting file, see if anythign dodgy turns up.

If all that is clear, it could be someone piggybacking on your wireless connection assuming you have one.

If you dont use wireless, disable it on the router and laptop.

If you do use wireless, go to your configuration settings and change the security settings (use WPA instead of WEP), tie connection to a MAC address if the option is there (use ipconfig /all to get the mac address of your wireless card on your XP machine).

300mb, you sure it wasnt auto update dragging down SP3 ?

ifah

LoLth wrote: »

300mb, you sure it wasnt auto update dragging down SP3 ?

it looks like an o2 broadband dongle - so no piggy backing on wireless.

it's most likely windows updates or new version of itunes or some other program like this.

Bertie Burn

Its still happening today another 300mb while i was downloading superantispyware although at points during the scan it had stoped draining but started again until it hit 300 mb im now on spybot stage and no draing is happening.Ifah i did download 360proshare just before all this started and mediaportal the day before along with sp3 but really i dont know if its any of them may be, highjackthis wont let me make a new topic but i'll try again but i can post the log on pchelpforum they seem to be looking into it for me.Whatever it is is looks like its just takeing 300 mb daily from now on until we stop it;)

kippy

Bertie Burn wrote: »

Its still happening today another 300mb while i was downloading superantispyware although at points during the scan it had stoped draining but started again until it hit 300 mb im now on spybot stage and no draing is happening.Ifah i did download 360proshare just before all this started and mediaportal the day before along with sp3 but really i dont know if its any of them may be, highjackthis wont let me make a new topic but i'll try again but i can post the log on pchelpforum they seem to be looking into it for me.Whatever it is is looks like its just takeing 300 mb daily from now on until we stop it;)

I assume those apps are some form of filesharing apps (Mediaportal and 360proshare).
Theres a strong chance those apps are downloading or uploading data in the background.
As others have mentioned you need to remove these two apps from starting up (start run type msconfig, startup tab) or perhaps uninstall them altogether.

Bertie Burn

Hi Kippy,
I ave done this as of this morning but another p2p app seems like trouble its called mediastar2 toolbar it froze my add/remove app while trying a remove.The mb's where still drained afther removing the others.So i'll keep trying

bhickey

Bertie Burn wrote: »

Hi Kippy,
I ave done this as of this morning but another p2p app seems like trouble its called mediastar2 toolbar it froze my add/remove app while trying a remove.The mb's where still drained afther removing the others.So i'll keep trying

Looking at your PCHelpForum topic, it seems like you're making headway there and that the problem is down to P2P programs. Adware, viruses etc.. Just keep doing what they say and you'll soon be sorted.

kmick

What astonishes me was that you were able to donload 300mb on an O2 dongle

ifah

Disconnect from the web until you get all these apps removed

Any idea what your quota is and how much you will be charged per mb over it? I suspect you'll have a big bill coming your way.

Bertie Burn

Got it sorted.By using the advise from LoLth and pcforumhelp it was easy so to everyone thanks.

10cent a mb i think, though it adds up to a bundle of big bucks in the end.