I need a program to tell me what is being downloaded

H

hi_itsme2

When I'm online my little taskbar computers show that I'm "busy" when I
don't even have my browser open or the mail program or anything. After
a day of being online, it will show that it "received" 30-50 MB but I
haven't downloaded anything I've requested. I need to find out what is
being downloaded.

Win XP
Netscape 7.2
XP firewall
ZA
AVG
Ad Aware
SpyBot


Jeri
 
C

canetoad

hi_itsme2 said:
When I'm online my little taskbar computers show that I'm "busy" when I
don't even have my browser open or the mail program or anything. After
a day of being online, it will show that it "received" 30-50 MB but I
haven't downloaded anything I've requested. I need to find out what is
being downloaded.
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This is probably just your 'normal' internet activity - viewed pages etc.
 
B

buzz Light Beer

When I'm online my little taskbar computers show that I'm "busy" when I
don't even have my browser open or the mail program or anything. After
a day of being online, it will show that it "received" 30-50 MB but I
haven't downloaded anything I've requested. I need to find out what is
being downloaded.

Win XP
Netscape 7.2
XP firewall
ZA
AVG
Ad Aware
SpyBot


Jeri
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This is why I don't use a free firewall. I use Sygate Pro which logs
traffic and, also, allows me to write advanced rules for traffic as
well.

Could be a trojan ?
You might want to try using something like McAfee Stinger. Probably,
after turning off system restore and booting in safe mode first.
Just download Stinger to your desk top or put it on a floppy and run
it in safe mode..
I'm assuming you're only trying to run one firewall at a
time<hopefully> and it's ZA ?
You may want to get the ZA add-on that will let you check a log of
what's getting thru. I'm not sure of the name of the proggy, but I
think it's a freebie......maybe someone who uses ZA can expand on it.
Also, try a copy of Winsonar 2005 XP, Freebie.
It won't delete a trojan/viri, but at least it may identify the prob
so you can take further action..
30-50 MB is not a lot if your on DSL. Just a WAG, could be from things
like headers, cache, etc as I'm not sure how your "little taskbar"
thingy calc's your traffic.... :)

You can get Stinger for free at McAfee's site and Winsonar free here :
http://digilander.libero.it/zancart/winsonar.html

Hope ya make out OK :)
/bLB
 
R

Richard Steinfeld

buzz said:
This is why I don't use a free firewall. I use Sygate Pro which logs
traffic and, also, allows me to write advanced rules for traffic as
well.

Could be a trojan ?
You might want to try using something like McAfee Stinger. Probably,
after turning off system restore and booting in safe mode first.
Just download Stinger to your desk top or put it on a floppy and run
it in safe mode..
Click to expand...

I've been using the free Sygate for a couple of years now. Prior to
this, I used a version of Sygate that was bundled with the _former_
version of System Suite. The bundled version was actually inferior to
the free version (limited program-specific rules). I think that the free
version is quite good. It actually does provide three logs of all
traffic, and includes back tracing so you can see where the transmission
came from -- and where your trojan tried to connect to. It also allows
custom advanced rules. I've been quite happy with it with only one
exception: it uses a fair amount of resources and runs a group of
processes almost non-stop. In fact, I believe that it's now causing my
audio feeds to hiccup.

As I recall, purchasing the retail version of Sygate does not entitle
the buyer to free telephone support -- and that's exactly what I require
from any security product that I pay for. I'll probably never use it,
but if my system's so messed up that I can't get on line, I'll need to
get those folks the only way I've got left: the horn.

Richard
 
U

Ulrich Neumann

hi_itsme2 said:
When I'm online my little taskbar computers show that I'm "busy" when I
don't even have my browser open or the mail program or anything. After
a day of being online, it will show that it "received" 30-50 MB but I
haven't downloaded anything I've requested. I need to find out what is
being downloaded.
Click to expand...

Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5
(http://download.kerio.com/dwn/kpf/kerio-pf-2.1.5-en-win.exe) has a
firewall status window which shows how much traffic and bandwidth each
running process is currently using. I think the latest Kerio PFW has a
similar feature.

Ulrich
 
H

hi_itsme2

buzz said:
This is why I don't use a free firewall. I use Sygate Pro which logs
traffic and, also, allows me to write advanced rules for traffic as
well.

Could be a trojan ?
You might want to try using something like McAfee Stinger. Probably,
after turning off system restore and booting in safe mode first.
Just download Stinger to your desk top or put it on a floppy and run
it in safe mode..
I'm assuming you're only trying to run one firewall at a
time<hopefully> and it's ZA ?
You may want to get the ZA add-on that will let you check a log of
what's getting thru. I'm not sure of the name of the proggy, but I
think it's a freebie......maybe someone who uses ZA can expand on it.
Also, try a copy of Winsonar 2005 XP, Freebie.
It won't delete a trojan/viri, but at least it may identify the prob
so you can take further action..
30-50 MB is not a lot if your on DSL. Just a WAG, could be from things
like headers, cache, etc as I'm not sure how your "little taskbar"
thingy calc's your traffic.... :)

You can get Stinger for free at McAfee's site and Winsonar free here :
http://digilander.libero.it/zancart/winsonar.html

Hope ya make out OK :)
/bLB
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Thanks, I'll check that out. One problem is that I DO NOT have DSL, am
on slow dial-up and whatever is going on, it's slowing me waaaaaaay
down. I did run findnewfiles and saw that a lot of it, 11+ MB was AVG
data and that there were a lot of xml stuff that went to a windows file
marked PCHealth/helpctr/data coll and a lot in pre-fetch.

Jeri
 
H

hi_itsme2

jmatt said:
Do you have automatic windows updates turned on or & any other
programs that have auto updates turned on in options.

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Not Windows update, it's turned off. AVG is automatic and it appears
that something in norton systemworks does some stuff too, especially
Ghost. I have tried to mark everything to ask me before downloading or
updating other than AVG.

Jeri
 
J

John Fitzsimons

When I'm online my little taskbar computers show that I'm "busy" when I
don't even have my browser open or the mail program or anything.
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It would help had you told us what O/S you are using. In any case
start your task manager when this happens. Stop each task one by one.
When the activity stops you will likely have found the problem.

I would think that it is almost certainly spyware. A visit to the
spyware newsgroup would be an idea for you.

Regards, John.
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