[awizzbang]

Whenever I log onto thr internet using a dial up connection I find that more info is being sent than received, at least twice as much. There is activity even when on a static page.

I have run Norton Anti-Virus, Ad-Aware and Spybot but nothing shows up. Do I have a problem and if so what can I do about it

Please help

[kumare]

Hi! In my experience, most of the time this happens when your ISP is experiencing problems. Try calling your ISP.

[murph]

This is difficult to answer without knowing what you have installed on your machine. However, here are a few suggestions: I will skip the obvious about how you may have trojans or spyware etc...

A lot of software has an option to regularly check for updates including Windows itself. Likewise, some software also "calls home" so to speak, a prime example being Zonealarm. This type of thing will add to the traffic outgoing from your machine.

Also, as a possibly linked cause, you could check the services that are running on your machine. Go to Start - Run - type "services.msc" (without the commas and assuming you use XP). A good website explaining your services is at http://www.blackviper.com/
Also check your task manager against the listings here http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm

To see what is connecting to what, go to your command prompt and type "netstat -a", (again, without commas). This will give you a detailed listing of processes and what ports that are connecting from, both TCP and UDP packets.

If you go to http://www.sysinternals.com, there are some cool freeware apps that can check what's what both inside and outgoing from your system. For example, they have a process explorer and a netstat app. With a nice fancy GUI. Hope this helps.