HELP! Excessive DATA USAGE!

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comp@ddict

comp@ddict

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Okay, I noticed this last night.

I left my laptop on for a download of a new TV episode, 2 of them accounting to some 700MB. Left it on, checked 12 hours later.

300MB downloaded, checked my account, 4GB GONE!

Yes 4GB GONE!

Now I thought it was a glitch, see I use rainmeter, so I can see a two numbers, representing down data and up data.

Now, with everything off, torrents, sites and windows update, that counter keeps hitting 40-80KB/s all the time. And yes, it is correct as I am indeed losing data from my account.

Now I don't understand HOW THIS IS HAPPENING. Is it a virus, or an application hogging data? How can I check? Is there some software which can tell me what is eating how much data?

I'm using a shitty Microsoft Forefront Antivirus bundled with the laptop software, which is obviously no good at all.

Help guys HELP!
 
Try TCPView for Windows from Microsoft this will show you which applications are connected to the internet, how much data sent etc..

You should get a fair idea from this what all could be eating your bandwidth.
 
Well, use resmon and see the network tab. See what is accessing the n/w.

4GB in 12hours is approx ~ 90+ kbps. If its a virus, more changes will be reflected in upload tab. I am pretty sure its some sort of update, but 4GB is too much IMO. Also check if you have been getting hash fails in torrents.
 
comp@ddict said:
Now, with everything off, torrents, sites and windows update, that counter keeps hitting 40-80KB/s all the time. And yes, it is correct as I am indeed losing data from my account.
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comp@ddict said:
many many hashfails in torrents... help..

not a virus, ran scan.
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vivek.krishnan said:
How many hash fails? Was it near the 3.5GB+ mark?
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I dont think the hashfails are really related, since the data transfer was 40-80kBps when torrents were off
 
sajitsm said:
are you on wifi? sure someone else is not leeching off you?
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How is this possible yaar? If wifi, he will have a router, and that statistics were of his machine, not the router.

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I dont think the hashfails are really related, since the data transfer was 40-80kBps when torrents were off
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Actually, utorrent does not quit immediately when closed, it tries to finish the remaining pieces which have not been completed.
 
I dunno the problem, it's just happening with these 3 torrents.

Still doesn't explain the 4GB loss. Oh well, I'll see what i can do.
 
Okay guys, give me a software, which shows me and allows me to:

1. See which softwares and services are connected to the internet and using how much of data/bandwidth

2. Allow me to manually disable their access to the internet.
 
Dude...Exactly same problem since last week...My limited bsnl Home 500 plan bill is in thousands because of this and this does not happen regularly to keep an eye every time.

Did lot of R&D. Since I use kaspersky whatever resouce monitor or tcpview I used kaspersky app was shown as the application which was using the bandwith since it monitors all the apps.

I tried uninstalling lot of application to pin point the rouge app but in vain.

So now I have installed comodo firewall and blocking every port except mozilla and utorrent. Now everything is fine but still could not pin point what is sucking the bandwidth.

Btw I also use rainmeter and I dont think it is the culprit.

Use du meter for network monitoring and comodo firewall to block. using comodo u can restrict based on application and you can see live report on which application is sucking the data.
 
uTorrent is fine, hashfails was only for a particular torrent.

Can I get the download link for resmon? The link provided earlier, I couldn't download it from there.

Btw I also use rainmeter and I dont think it is the culprit.
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Yeah I use it too, thought it was

Use du meter for network monitoring and comodo firewall to block. using comodo u can restrict based on application and you can see live report on which application is sucking the data.
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Will do tonight sir and see. Hope it works. I'll be adding SKYPE to the allowed list, with utorrent and Chrome. Everything else blocked, oh wait, applications like CS SOurce which I play over WLAN will have to be allowed right?
 
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