I was browsing a few tech sites when I noticed my network monitoring program was showing I was downloading at a steady 15kb/s rate for no apparent reason.
I closed down all firefox tabs and msn and waited a few moments, but the downloading did not stop. I then rebooted and the downloading started up straight away, so I disconnected my router and reconnected (dynamic IP) - and within a few minutes I was mysteriously downloading again.
I dont have XP or anything else set to update automatically, and I dont use any p2p programs, so at the moment Im a bit frantic as to what it could possibly be. Ive scanned with adaware, spybot, hijackthis and avg, but did not find anything malicious.
I ran netstat while the downloading was occuring, and 213.200.97.61:http came up each time, though I dont really know where/what this is. I also searched the hard drive for recently altered files, but i didnt spot anything that could be malicious.
I dont know whats going on but my first guess was I had become a zombie network victim, so Im a bit confused what to try now as I havent come up against anything like this before. anyone have any suggestions other than formatting the drive?
I closed down all firefox tabs and msn and waited a few moments, but the downloading did not stop. I then rebooted and the downloading started up straight away, so I disconnected my router and reconnected (dynamic IP) - and within a few minutes I was mysteriously downloading again.
I dont have XP or anything else set to update automatically, and I dont use any p2p programs, so at the moment Im a bit frantic as to what it could possibly be. Ive scanned with adaware, spybot, hijackthis and avg, but did not find anything malicious.
I ran netstat while the downloading was occuring, and 213.200.97.61:http came up each time, though I dont really know where/what this is. I also searched the hard drive for recently altered files, but i didnt spot anything that could be malicious.
I dont know whats going on but my first guess was I had become a zombie network victim, so Im a bit confused what to try now as I havent come up against anything like this before. anyone have any suggestions other than formatting the drive?