Help!!! Bleeding data!

K

kbilly

Active Member
Joined
Mar 9, 2007
Messages
54
Reaction score
1
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.
 
Last edited:
install "zone alarm" will tell you excatly whats happening
 
kbilly said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
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'.
 
Ouch!!

Turned automatic update off, installed zonealarm now im bleeding 600KB per minute help!!
 
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!!:D thanks everyone for your help!
 
Last edited:
well it would help, so i know what people are doing with my bandwidth. come on i know you want to ;)
 
@kbilly....

zone alarm can be painfull sometimes, but it stops all unwanted traffic...!
 
kbilly said:
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!!:D thanks everyone for your help!
Click to expand...
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.
 
true, i only install it when i've got a problem.....then uninstall it again
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X