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19350 2001-09-24 12:01:00 According to zone alarm I have apparently sent 210MB
of stuff today. What could this be about, because I'm pretty sure I should not have.
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19351 2001-09-24 12:18:00 assuming your on cable/isdn you could start by putting everything listed by zonealarm on 'question mark' and see what asks for net access while you have no apps running. then open a few of your commen apps that shouldn't be sending anuthing and see if they repeatedly ask to connect to the net.

do you have a lan? what os are you running?
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19352 2001-09-24 12:54:00 Check if your running a file sharing app in the background.

Most of them install themselvest to run in the background, and can eat up a lot of bandwidth.
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19353 2001-09-24 22:14:00 I have just a normal dial up connection. According to zone alarm i'd recieved~15MB, but sent~210MB??
Is it possible to send that much on normal dial up connection. I downloaded latest virus defs for norton and did full system scan to check nothing untoward was happening. Could it be that zone alarm is wrong. I'm using windows 98.no lan.
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19354 2001-09-27 04:11:00 I noticed the same thing with my version, which I thought was the latest (2.6)

I checked the amount of data I had REALLY sent out via the modem icon in the system tray and discovered the MB stated in ZoneAlarm should actually read as KB ... there seems to have been a typo during the making of the program and it appears as MB instead of KB.

Not much help, but that explains it ...
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19355 2001-09-29 21:28:00 You can also see bytes sent/received by using the DOS utility
(Start/Programs/MS-DOS prompt) type 'netstat -e' into the open DOS window.
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