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| Thread ID: 27940 | 2002-12-07 01:21:00 | data sent /received query | artpepper (1321) | Press F1 |
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| 103908 | 2002-12-07 01:21:00 | something that's been bothering me lately ok I'm serving the net - and the internet two black screen s in the bottom right are flashing even though I am not dwnloading/uploading and the site has loaded .... I checked what programs I had running - closed any backweb - virus update stuff I could see but still the windows show data activity... BTW in status I am receiving far more bytes than I'm sending, and I have no trojans/viruses...(using ME and AFAIK have no scheduled tasks etc that wd explain it) any ideas? cheers art |
artpepper (1321) | ||
| 103909 | 2002-12-07 09:39:00 | Does the "internet two black screens" keep on flashing for more than a minute after the page's status bar says "done"? Sometimes pages still continue to load even though it appears to be all there. You could try running AdAware to make sure you haven't got spyware reporting your internet activities. It is normal to receive far more bytes than you send, after all you are downloading pages all the time. A firewall would tell you who/what is coming in/going out - I like Agnitum's Outpost myself but there are others. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 103910 | 2002-12-07 09:40:00 | You are supposed to receive more data than you send. This is normal. Have you set Windows to update automatically? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 103911 | 2002-12-07 11:55:00 | yes I suspect it was Norton AV updating (despite this not being scheduled and could find no record of it) or something similar- although using ctrl/alt/delete I cut down to just explorer and system tray and the data screens still lit... strange it has since stopped perhaps a firewall is a good idea... cheers |
artpepper (1321) | ||
| 103912 | 2002-12-07 19:27:00 | I Firewall would not go astray. Of the freebie ones there is ZoneAlarm which is both free and the paid Pro version. www.zonelabs.com There is Outpost, not sure if this is free or not. www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/ There is Tiny Personal Firewall which used to be free and as far as I know still is. www.tinysoftware.com/ It could have been Nortons AV updating, our one and several others that I know have taken to auto updating without prompting even though the Please Advise when Update is available has been ticked. Another option to see what could be talking home or otherwise maybe accessing the net would be anything in your startup. Start > Run > msconfig > Enter > Startup Tab > see what items are ticked and remove the ticks as required. A good list of programs and what they do and whether they are needed at startup available from www.pacs-portal.co.uk www.answersthatwork.com |
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