[PLUG] Bandwidth vampire

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 09:01:44PM -0700, Chuck Hast wrote:
> I thought it was off, but it maybe the company laptop that may have done  a
> windows update on me, I know that those things eat inordinate amounts of
> data, I thought that they had turned off the auto-update, but I am going to
> have to look and see if it got turned back on.

My bandwidth just spiked - a little - because I run Scientific Linux
( a RedHat Enterprise clone ), and about 20 packages (on 12 machines)
just got updated.  Some of them are big packages, like the linux kernel
and associated libraries.  

That would not use 4 GB, though.  Over the past 235 days I've moved only
4.99 GB (in both directions) over the internet interface, 21 MB/day,
including daily backups of four offsite machines.  I can't imagine 
windoze having that many updates - but I can imagine windoze getting
exploited, and now part of a Bot army sending out spam.

Good luck on your sleuthing.  For my firewall, I use an ALIX with a
full distro on it, so I have many more tools installed or installable
for sleuthing.

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com