mobile Broadband over charging me

espresso

ianrout wrote: »

Thanks everyone for the input to this issue.
I do feel some have gone off the point. The issue is not the difference of 74b, its how often and the amounts of 2.8mb (and similar) as noted in the last post.
These usages appear many many times eating into my 3gig allowance.

I have not been using limewire or downloading movies, I’m fully aware of the way limewire works and the amount of data a movie uses.

I should have put this at the start, I connect on the internet using a macbook, imac and ibook all running 10.5 (leopard) OS. From my understanding they are very hard to hack or write a script which can do such things as creating a zombie computer.

Could this be done to the dongle??
I have also thought the firewall could be causing the repeated uses, although I would have thought this would only be a small amount and not around the 2.8mb each time.

Any further thoughts???
Thanks!!!

Your reply really puzzles me! Why do you keep going on about "2.8mb each time"?

You don't appear to know how to use your firewall?

Have you enabled firewall logging?

Have you looked at the resultant log file?

So what application is using your bandwidth?

Have you enabled stealth mode?

Please report back when you know what is going on.

asbokid

espresso wrote: »

Your reply really puzzles me! Why do you keep going on about "2.8mb each time"? You don't appear to know how to use your firewall? Have you enabled firewall logging? Have you looked at the resultant log file? So what application is using your bandwidth? Have you enabled stealth morde?

Please report back when you know what is going on.

I think he's a crank... He knows enough about network security to know that macs are at reduced risk... but doesn't seem to know the difference between a bill and a bandwidth log, and he ignores all recommendations... one for the bit bucket..