Thanks for the responses.
I assume you have tried reinstalling Kaspersky?
I really can't think what it could possibly be doing to be sending and downloading data unless it's doing some sort of backup of everything you have. I would disable it to be on the safe side until you can figure this out. Who knows what it's actually downloading or uploading
It first happened on the Win7 RC, which was when I 'upgraded' to 2010; I've since reinstalled with the RTM but still got the problem. I think anything it wanted to steal it could've by now, disabling it now would just be shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted
I saw the same thing and wasn't sure what was going on. Thought it might be "registering" (for want of a better word) your net usage twice because it runs everything through it?
I wondered about this because often it does download just a bit over what everything else downloads put together, but it didn't stop when I disabled it (did stop on program exit) and occasionally it's silly usage like accounting for 90%ish of data, like yesterday.
Me too, I dumped it in favour of MSE, much faster browsing, and much faster starup and shutdown, my only issue now is adverts, Kaspersky did a good job of blocking adverts.
I posted in the main AV thread about MSE. While I like it in principle, I can't use it because when scanning large archives (50GB odd) RAM usage seems to climb through the roof - using 98%ish of 8GB - making my computer dog slow for hours. Also I'm not sure if it is the large archives, it's just a suspicion. Adverts aren't a problem though as I have Adblock Plus
Miniyazz - I use KIS 2010 and do not have any problems like you have, in fact it is a lot less intrusive than using an earlier version with Vista.
Why don't you uninstall KIS and install MSE for a while to check.
Are you running a wireless link? - is somebody outside hooked into you?
It's definitely KIS causing the usage - on checking resource manager it shows network usage by process, and avp (KIS) is right up there at the top. I'm connected through a router and no internet sharing is set up so no-one can be connected through me AFAIK - they could be connected to me, theoretically, but the network usage pattern doesn't fit. Incidentally, my disk space isn't decreasing so the data isn't actually being stored.
I've just had a thought, though - I've looked at Resource Monitor again and it's currently d/ling at 150ish kb/sec, apparently, but it's writing to disk at around 1kb/sec, so I'm gonna keep an eye on disk writes so if it suddenly shoots up I might be able to pinpoint a file that's storing data, presumably before being overwritten. If it's being written to disk at all.
Where do you check to see your download/upload activity?
EDIT: Found it, mine is saying it downloaded 11gb and uploaded 2.7gb out of which KIS downloaded 5.4gb and uploaded 54mb
Why the hell would KIS download 5.4gb in a month?
That could be manageable - if it's downloading complete virus definition lists every night - I don't know how big they are but measured in MB wouldn't be too large, I don't suppose.
Have you though about installing some other network monitoring software to make sure that it is display the correct usage, I would expect Cisco or Linksys provide some decent software, weather free or not I don't know.
It might be worth uninstalling KIS and continuing to use the network monitor and see if there are any difference.
Ideally you woul dneed somehting that shows you which process is downloading/uploading.
Hope this helps.
Thanks, resource monitor is pretty handy with that sort of information
I have a feeling that other areas such as incoming emails etc contribute to this data collection total. Anything that comes through the network such as files from another computer will and should in theory add to the total.
Probably, but all my mail is web-based (gmail) and I don't transfer files over my network - I use it purely for internet. I'm still suspicious about it scanning everyone else's computers for files, but I think it would be pretty unlikely. Not least because I need a password to access anyone else's computers, and I'm fairly sure I haven't told Kaspersky it
Yes AFAIK that's the reason as pretty much all internet access is ported through it. If you look at your internet browser usage on the network monitor it will be fairly similar.
If your ISP provides a usage monitor you will see that the amount used doesn't include the Kaspersky figure.
Unfortunately my router doesn't have a usage monitor and I don't 'own' the internet connection (rented house) so can't get hold of the ISP. But I have started being throttled, which to me indicates my actual internet usage has gone up. Of course, that could be due to someone else in the house - I think one of them installed Spotify recently, for example.
I wouldn't ditch something like KIS just because your having a problem with it in favour of a free one like AVG or MSE which are good but not that bloody good.
Your network activity for KIS is shocking. My KIS figure last month was 7Gb which is shocking to me. There is a reason for this which I would love to know the answer on so I suggest you post on the Kaspersky forums which can be found
HERE
I am sure there is a perfectly simple and good answer to it.
I'll try the KIS forums too, thanks.
Edit: Just searched the KIS forums - can't find any internet usage threads (just about to make one), but did find out why my WEI isn't working - the easiest solution generally may be to reinstall KIS 2009!
