Some program is draining my Internet usage

Reganovski

I have a vodafone dongle connected to a UMR router. I bought a 5gb usage last Saturday and it was gone yesterday. I had assumed someone had hacked into the router and started using my Internet. But I checked the users connected to the router and it's only me. So I got another 5gb today and watched on the router as the megabits used kept rising. So I turned off my computer, connected to the router using my iPhone and saw that the megabits usage had stopped. I turned on my computer again and without launching any programs the usage increased again. It's nearly 2 megabits a minute with no programs launched on my laptop. I looked at my processes but didn't notice anything but I wouldn't be too sure of that.
Anyone got any ideas what's happening?

Lu Tze

Does it happen when the dongle is plugged directly into to your laptop?

Reganovski

Lu Tze wrote: »

Does it happen when the dongle is plugged directly into to your laptop?

It is. It's approx 140 Kbps with no programs running

Adam

windoww/itunes/adobe updates?

Reganovski

Adam wrote: »

windoww/itunes/adobe updates?

No itunes running but itunes helper in processes which i killed and made no difference. No adobe either....no sure what you mean by windoww.

Could I have some sort of a virus?

Adam

windows i meant

Mezcita

Skype?

Reganovski

nope literally I have opened nothing on my laptop. All I do is start it up, connect to the internet (either by the router or by dongle connected to laptop) and watch the mbs disappear

Adam

yes well you dont need to start any programs for windows updates to run

Willbbz

Try run it in safemode with networking?

Reganovski

Definitely not windows updates because you can always see that in the bottom corner.

Something I've noticed is when I go to Resource Monitor under Network, there is a thing called KService.exe (See attached)

Willbbz

Just googled it
http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/Blog/blogentry=000175/BlogEntry.aspx

P2P software. Probably worth uninstalling if it's eating all your interwebs

Lu Tze

Actually i remember having a problem like that - i think it was kservice as well and it was related channel 4's 4 on demand service if you happen to have that on it

tfitzgerald

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Reganovski

Lu Tze wrote: »

Actually i remember having a problem like that - i think it was kservice as well and it was related channel 4's 4 on demand service if you happen to have that on it

Well I'll be damned! Its not channel 4 on demand but Sky Player instead. I have just uninstalled it and hey presto, the downloading has stopped. I have had sky player on my laptop for months (never use it!) and it must have only started downloading something over the past few days.....wonder what it was trying to do?
Weird eh......people should check if its doing the same on their PC.

Voodu Child

Reganovski wrote: »

wonder what it was trying to do?
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Skyplayer uses a P2P network to distribute content. That means you are uploading data to other users continuously while the program is active.

Reganovski

Voodu Child wrote: »

Skyplayer uses a P2P network to distribute content. That means you are uploading data to other users continuously while the program is active.

Why did it only start recently so? I never had any trouble with it before.