I'm hardly an expert in this Brian, but have you tried calling up the Task
Manager while "it" is downloading to see what unknown process may be
running?
Charlie
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> At this time of year I turn into a grinch. I hate Xmas for all the extra
> pressures and costs the season imposes. They throw totally out of whack
> any timetable for normal things that I might have. Without fail. It usually
> sends me into a significant state of depression. Oh well !
> Rant over for now.
>
> I have an Acer pc running XP. On dial-up, not broadband.
>
> Lately - in fact for a little while - I have noticed it continues
> downloading
> "something" when connected to my ISP but not supposed to be doing
> anything at all. Normally, I disconnect it when I'm not deliberately doing
> something on the internet, as I get charged $$ for every second I'm
> connected; but sometimes I forget to disconnect.
>
> It's not Avast anti-virus. Normally this will do its own updating without
> letting
> the user know, but I typically take charge of that process and know when it
> is done. So it's not Avast. It's not Spybot as far as I can tell, for the
> same
> reason.
>
> It's not Windows Automatic Updates as far as I can tell, as I have Updates
> turned off. I don't have enough spare space for some clown of a program to
> fill my hard drive so much the system crashes. But for all that I don't
> trust
> Windows / MS enough to necessarily believe that it is really OFF when I
> have it switched that way. It "could" be doing it.
>
> As far as I know it is not the Conficker virus; I have run the Microsoft
> test for
> that as well as Avast and I think my system is clean.
>
> It is not Apple audio as far as I know since I disabled its update process.
> it
> wanted to download 60 MB, so I showed it where to go.
>
> It "could" be Adobe; it nearly always tries to connect when I open any pdf
> file
> sent to me (and I get plenty). I'm pretty sure it wants to impose some
> massive update on me. Since it is Adobe, ANY update is sure to be
> massive. But I never agree to do what it wants, if I know about it.
>
> So; the crunch question. How can I test / check just what program is
> initiating / running these unauthorised downloads?
>
> All and any answers appreciated.
>
> Brian Swale.
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