Help!!! Bleeding data!

[kbilly]

I use taskmanager to close as much stuff as I can. I open and connect to MTN, I then bleed 100KB/minute WITHOUT having any browser open or doing anything.
Thats 6MB an hour and if im online the whole working day than thats going to be more than a gig lost to nothing a month. Any ideas?! Im using the xp firewall and avgas.

 

[dotVIBE]

probably windows update.

 

[caspa]

install "zone alarm" will tell you excatly whats happening

 

[sean12]

I use taskmanager to close as much stuff as I can. I open and connect to MTN, I then bleed 100KB/minute WITHOUT having any browser open or doing anything.
Thats 6MB an hour and if im online the whole working day than thats going to be more than a gig lost to nothing a month. Any ideas?! Im using the xp firewall and avgas.

I had a similar problem abd turned off the firewall and used only my Nortons antivirus.

Another thing, sometimes I have noticed large emails in the sent box but they are still being sent. Nortons scans them 1st then sends them a bit later.

 

[SecretCode]

I blame Windows Update as well. It might complete after a few a hundred MB and then not bother you much for a week ... but who knows? Go to control panel > system > automatic updates tab > select 'Notify me but don't automatically download or install them'.

 

[kbilly]

Ouch!!

Turned automatic update off, installed zonealarm now im bleeding 600KB per minute help!!

 

[Pitbull]

Turned automatic update off, installed zonealarm now im bleeding 600KB per minute help!!

U got a torrent like Bit torrent or something ?

 

[kbilly]

thanks caspa!

Yes i do have utorrent but its disabled. i logged off and on from my user, connected again and zonealarm is kicking ass not losing a single bit. 172.25.69.131 keeps trying to get in but is blocked!! thanks everyone for your help!

 

[Pitbull]

Yes i do have utorrent but its disabled. i connected again and zonealarm is kicking ass not losing a single bit. 172.25.69.131 keeps trying to get in but is blocked!! thanks everyone for your help!

U must stop looking @ porn ...

This is who it belongs to.

http://whois.domaintools.com/172.25.69.131

 

[acidrain]

...

This is who it belongs to.

http://whois.domaintools.com/172.25.69.131

Took a look at the page but have no idea who it is because my firewall has been blocking alot of ip adds in this domains ip range?

Any idea what it exactly is?

 

[YelloFever]

Took a look at the page but have no idea who it is because my firewall has been blocking alot of ip adds in this domains ip range?

Any idea what it exactly is?

 

[acidrain]

I suppose that means you know what it is?

 

[YelloFever]

I suppose that means you know what it is?

Maybe, Maybe not

 

[acidrain]

well it would help, so i know what people are doing with my bandwidth. come on i know you want to

 

[Rikus]

You are not bleeding you are donating.

 

[YelloFever]

You are not bleeding you are donating.

Maybe a bit of both

 

[caspa]

@kbilly....

zone alarm can be painfull sometimes, but it stops all unwanted traffic...!

 

[ginggs]

Yes i do have utorrent but its disabled. i logged off and on from my user, connected again and zonealarm is kicking ass not losing a single bit. 172.25.69.131 keeps trying to get in but is blocked!! thanks everyone for your help!

172.25.69.131 is in the private IP address range 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x, it does not exist on the internet.
It must be someone on the MTN network hitting you.

 

[ginggs]

zone alarm can be painfull sometimes, but it stops all unwanted traffic...!

Also stops some wanted traffic, especially answers to DNS queries.

 

[caspa]

true, i only install it when i've got a problem.....then uninstall it again