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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 1:49 pm Post subject: WTF is all my data going?
Over the past few days my internet connection seems to have been eating data at an alarming rate. I've not been downloading software or watching videos or anything else that would easily explain it and I am fairly sure that nobody is feeeloading on my WiFi. Is there any kind of software that can keep tabs on what pages are using what data? Or any other way of keeping tabs on things?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45420
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 2:03 pm Post subject:
Have you run Malware Bytes or similar? I would

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 2:16 pm Post subject:
Use Glasswire to monitor your network activity. https://www.glasswire.com/

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45459
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 2:19 pm Post subject:

run malwarebytes (free)

run spybot and then set the immunisation (free)

get avast home premium (about £40 a year for 3 machines and some smartphones thrown in) run a full scan on activation and subsequently now and again just to make sure.

it sounds like you got infected with something.kill it asap ,it is likely to be a bot if it is eating bandwidth but it might have harvested data as well so changing passwords and checking any money stuff is safe would be sensible

for general band use ttb Meter (free)will log up and down traffic and if set will warn you if you exceed your limit and give an indication of traffic you did not initiate (i set mine to half my limit to give early warning and see how much i still have in the last week of the month and use that for downloading large document files or transferring data to storage.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 2:40 pm Post subject:
Sorry, I should've said this one is a Linux box.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45459
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 2:44 pm Post subject:
ahh ,in which case the linux forum might have some clues as to the the best way to proceed

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 3:22 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

ahh ,in which case the linux forum might have some clues as to the the best way to proceed

Quite possibly.
The answers here will still be of use: I do sometimes use Windows, though not so often on a metered connection.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45459
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 3:56 pm Post subject:
iirc ttb meter has a linux version

SteveP

Joined: 23 Jan 2008
Posts: 155
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 15 11:59 am Post subject:
If you use facebook it will download videos even if you don't watch them. My mobile data allowance got hit with that when the other half started using it on her phone. There is a setting somewhere I believe to switch it off.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 15 12:58 pm Post subject:

SteveP wrote:

If you use facebook it will download videos even if you don't watch them. My mobile data allowance got hit with that when the other half started using it on her phone. There is a setting somewhere I believe to switch it off.

That may explain it.

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