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Digiweb issue or me?

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  • 20-05-2008 11:33pm
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    FX Meister
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    Got a mail from digiweb last night to say I was nearing my traffic quote. Thought it was a bit strange as I haven't been downloading much. Anyway, looked at my stats and for the last 24hrs it says I've uploaded almost a gig. I haven't been uploading anything and I'm not running any torrent software in the background or anything. Anyone have any idea whats up? Could this be a virus?


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    crawler
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    FX Meister wrote: »
    Got a mail from digiweb last night to say I was nearing my traffic quote. Thought it was a bit strange as I haven't been downloading much. Anyway, looked at my stats and for the last 24hrs it says I've uploaded almost a gig. I haven't been uploading anything and I'm not running any torrent software in the background or anything. Anyone have any idea whats up? Could this be a virus?

    even if you have uploaded very little but you have downloaded a lot of stuff, then your upload will be high due to the chatty nature of TCP/IP...could be that, or a virus


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    watty
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    10G of download can generate as much as 1G of upload.

    Email, webpages, form posts, video, Skype are all upload & Download, not just FTP or torrents.

    If upload seems unusually high suspect a spam zombie. See is there significant network activity when you are doing nothing.

    silentrunners.org has a tool much better than any AV program to spot the launch point of every program. Every worm/trojan/virus has have someway of restarting when you boot.

    Do google each thing it finds (i.e. it gets a false positive of Netopia keyboard driver on some Dells. Deleting that results in no keyboard).

    If everything checks out OK, do ring/email Digiweb support if it still seems the the data usage is madly wrong.


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    FX Meister
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    the 24 hour period had 130mb down and 980mb up. I'll check that program out. Thanks


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    cgarvey
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    FX Meister wrote: »
    Digiweb issue or me?

    Whilst I may not be Digiweb's biggest fan, and they have comparatively smaller caps than other ISPs, they do rate well in their monitoring. They give you a near realtime traffic count, detailed graphs and automated emails as you approach your limit.


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    FX Meister
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    I use them in my parents house for them and they don't really need huge speed or caps so it suits fine.


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