Laptop data

[psp83]

Hey All.

Hope you all had a good Christmas.

So I spent most of my Christmas in bed with a ear, sinus and chest infection and resulted to using my laptop alot more that usual.

Something I noticed is that my laptop is always sending and receiving data.

I've done the usual checks, av scans etc etc etc and found nothing.

I'm running windows 8 64bit

Here's a pic :



This is the laptop idle, nothing open. The amount of data being transferred stays roughly the same all the time when its not being used.

Anyone got any ideas what it could be or knows any tools I can use to see what is using data?

[Lona]

Could be windows update if automatic updates is ticked

[pctech]

What are you using as AV Paul?

[zappaDPJ]

Laptops tend to come with a lot of bloatware installed, it might be something along those lines. I'd take a look at what processes are running, that should give you a clue.

[Ray]

Have you looked at the Network tab on Windows Resource Monitor? Paul.

[pctech]

I've noticed Avast communicates a lot with its external servers as I see a lot of link light activity even thought the PC is idle, if I shut it down it gets less.

Could also be stuff like Trusteer Rapport

[psp83]

Windows Defender and malwarebytes is what I use..

Its not a new laptop it had windows 7 on it before and never had this issue.

Its sending & receiving data 24/7 so its not a windows update.

[pctech]

That'll be the modern UI gadgets then.

[psp83]

That'll be the modern UI gadgets then.

Nope.

Its backgroundTaskHost.exe which is a part of windows defender that is always sending & receiving data 

[sobranie]

I also had this 'prob'. Eventually tracked it down to Think Broadband, broadband quality monitor.

[pctech]

Nope.

Its backgroundTaskHost.exe which is a part of windows defender that is always sending & receiving data 

must have changed a bit then.

[Lance]

I also had this 'prob'. Eventually tracked it down to Think Broadband, broadband quality monitor.

But that would only happen with a direct connection rather than having a router wouldn't it? The ping from the BQM normally ends at the router so wouldn't give traffic on a PC.