Weird traffic on 3g vodacom

[Thed]

I've been experiencing extreme traffic on my 3g even if I have it on idle. Idle for 30mins and my usage on 3g is 100meg. This is especially after restarts of my pc. I looked at the resource manager ( win7) and found the most traffic is comming from this ip : 41.0.162.74

But still under a network service on windows so I can't say what is munching up the bandwidth. I downloaded the trail version for netlimiter but could not see exactly what program was abusing my connection. In the end I decided it had to be something on startup since the moment I kill the connection it doesn't restart itself. At last found it to be the OVI software from nokia. Traced the ip and saw it was from Vodacom bussiness ? Weird won't you say ?.

Anyhow I have been noticing something "stealing" my bandwidth for a while but could not pinpoint it up to now. Unintalled nokia OVI and all systems go.

For a while I was thinking Vodacom was "causing" downloads since it's one of their ip's

I would have believed updates if it was not more than 200meg but I have 500meg gone just from that.

Anyone else seen something weird like this ?

 

[ginggs]

I looked at the resource manager ( win7) and found the most traffic is comming from this ip : 41.0.162.74

What was your IP at the time?

At last found it to be the OVI software from nokia.

The Windows firewall can prevent incoming connections but it does nothing to stop programs making outbound connections. Get yourself a decent firewall that can keep the programs on your PC in check. Zone Alarm and Comodo are decent free ones.