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TehTech · 22-04-2008, 01:09

Right, I have just noticed something VERY strange with my internet connection, I reboot my pc, log into windows (with wireless disabled & wired unplugged) I have nothing at all open that accesses the net, (I have even deleted the automatic updater for my internet security for this test too), no MSN, no IncrediMail open, but as soon as I enable my wireless connection for the internet, it gets an IP address and then I notice in DU meter, something starts downloading, now it starts off with a few KB/s and then after exactly 18 seconds its as big as 247.8KB/s as the maximum transfer rate, and within a minute, I have downloaded over 7MB of data???

Now as I said before, I dont have anything running when this happens, hell I have even done a fresh install of XP, only other software installed is DU meter, and also TaskManager backs this downloaded data up as the graph is consistant with DU meter, so my question is; WTF is happening and what is this data that is being downloaded??

I am writing this with my wireless disabled, so I know that nothing is getting on this pc!

PLEASE HELP!!!!

22-04-2008, 01:09	#1
TehTech Permanently Banned Join Date: Dec 2007 Age: 45 Posts: 286	Computer downloading for no apparent reason (was WTF are VM upto now??) Right, I have just noticed something VERY strange with my internet connection, I reboot my pc, log into windows (with wireless disabled & wired unplugged) I have nothing at all open that accesses the net, (I have even deleted the automatic updater for my internet security for this test too), no MSN, no IncrediMail open, but as soon as I enable my wireless connection for the internet, it gets an IP address and then I notice in DU meter, something starts downloading, now it starts off with a few KB/s and then after exactly 18 seconds its as big as 247.8KB/s as the maximum transfer rate, and within a minute, I have downloaded over 7MB of data??? Now as I said before, I dont have anything running when this happens, hell I have even done a fresh install of XP, only other software installed is DU meter, and also TaskManager backs this downloaded data up as the graph is consistant with DU meter, so my question is; WTF is happening and what is this data that is being downloaded?? I am writing this with my wireless disabled, so I know that nothing is getting on this pc! PLEASE HELP!!!!