Always downloading something?

grumpycrab

rrockettman wrote: »

I am on satellite broadband I have only a 10gb monthly allowance

I know somebody that had a similar problem; we managed to prove that data was used with NO computers connected to the modem/router AND wifi off. The ISP insisted that it wasn't their fault and "it's how the internet works"; we told them we'd change ISP and the problem went away (I think they changed the external IP address which had been static).

rrockettman

Thanks everyone.
Just ran malwarebytes. 2446 threats detected and deleted!
Lets see what happens now.

rrockettman

Success!!!

AndyPix

rrockettman wrote: »

2446 threats detected and deleted!
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Lolz - there's your problem

Oblivion

rrockettman wrote: »

Thanks everyone.
Just ran malwarebytes. 2446 threats detected and deleted!
Lets see what happens now.

Good grief! That must be a world record. :rotfl:

Anne_Marie_2

Oblivion wrote: »

Good grief! That must be a world record. :rotfl:

Afraid not, once had a friend's laptop which was playing up, and had over 6000 threats. I just remember being totally gobsmacked at the time.

ChiefGrasscutter

Can we take it then that the anti-virus/internet security suite installed on the computer does not work......

Mr_Toad

Oblivion wrote: »

Good grief! That must be a world record. :rotfl:

Nope. I've just fixed my idiot brother in law's laptop and it was 5600ish. He's only had it since Xmas, I set it up for him on Boxing day and told him not to begger about with it.

But no. He decided to install Chrome, just to try it, and didn't have any ad blockers and something happened to malware bytes, he has no idea what and it.......well you get the picture.

rrockettman

I'm running the free version of avast for the last year and a bit and adblock plus, had Norton for the years before that, along with the usual microsoft stuff. The computer is probably about 8 years old. Malwarebytes seems to be picking up 100 threats a day.

debitcardmayhem

Daft question , having run Malwarebytes did you back that it up with Adwcleaner and JunkRemovalTool ?
No thought not ......
links to follow...
https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/junkware-removal-tool/