Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning in HughesNet Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20433383 en Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:01:29 EDT Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:01:29 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20462367 Xtreme2damax : Perhaps, it seems like it maybe has. I haven't had this problem again in a while and it seems it's reared it's ugly face again. :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20462367 Sat, 10 May 2008 17:25:00 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20462228 mark470 : some time last year there was an issue with fap jumping the gun, i wonder if that same issue has come back, or was never realy repaired ??
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Automatic updates - Disabled
Checked Background Processes - Nothing running that would use bandwidth.

Virus/Malware/Adware/Spyware - I run a 64-bit operating system, and have ran scans which turned up nothing.

Anyone else accessing the network - No one else except for me, my computer was the only one on in the house, I have a secured wireless connection and checked access logs for our router which showed only me on.

After ruling everything out, I came to the conclusion that hughes screwed up system is wrongfully causing people to go into fap randomly by saying you downloaded a *bogus* amount of MB.

Also hughes re-tarded indian tech support are no help and keep insisting that you downloaded that when you know for a fact you didn't.

So your definitely not alone here, as there are others dealing with the same bull**** tactics that hughes is pulling.

There has been numerous ripoff reports filed, numerous FTC, BBB complaints filed as well all having to do with the same or similar issues we are experiencing, yet no action has been taken against hughes yet to force them to fix problems with their obsolete system. :huh: ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20462047 Sat, 10 May 2008 15:51:16 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20460407 frazurbluu : We do have Avast anti-virus software running. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20460407 Sat, 10 May 2008 05:07:31 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20456676 nedriv :
said by frazurbluu See Profile :

I think we've got this fixed. I'd been running Spybot regularly but when I downloaded and ran AdAware it found 3 viruses that Spybot missed.

Thanks to everyone for the help :)

frazurbluu,
Spybot and AdAware are not virus scanners/checkers. They are spyware/adware checkers. Since you identified what AdAware found as a virus, it begs the question, are your running a virus checker program? There are many commercial programs available, but also some good free programs. I personally run AVG anti-virus free version.

I also run spybot and AdAware both because each program will find things the other missed. I make sure all spyware/adware and virus programs are updated with the latest updates before running them.

In any event, I hope you found your problem.

Ed
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Thanks to everyone for the help :)
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20455458 Fri, 09 May 2008 08:05:09 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20452655 kp420wv : Limewire and the gnuetilla network was ok to use... many years ago. Today it is is filled with every bug known to man. Most files are mislabeled to give you god knows what. Get rid of it and use something like Ares.

KP
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While an unidentified process on you computer may be well at fault, I am surprised that you are so eagerly assuming the blame and not even considering a problem on the other side of the corporate curtain....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20451832 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:50:09 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20451678 Binary : your daughter probably have over download too much songs or something or did not exit LimeWire off completely ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20451678 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:20:39 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440446 frazurbluu :
said by grohgreg See Profile :

»www.google.com/search?num=100&hl···e+trojan
Thanks! I'm not very technically inclined but I'll give this a try once I get home.

After all, what's the worst that could happen :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440446 Tue, 06 May 2008 14:49:56 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20438752 grohgreg : »www.google.com/search?num=100&hl···e+trojan]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20438752 Tue, 06 May 2008 09:12:24 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20438564 frazurbluu :
said by grohgreg See Profile :

Alternatively, you've picked up a trojan. Have you used Windows Explorer to search for any large files with a creation date that matches your suspected download hours?

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I did try using Explorer but I couldn't find the problem file.

My daughter downloaded LimeWire recently and I wonder if it may have infected our computer. I uninstalled it this morning.

I think at this point I'm going to give up and take the PC to a local company and have them see what they can do. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20438564 Tue, 06 May 2008 08:09:08 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20435545 grohgreg : Let me understand this then - you put the modem back online Sunday, and the mystery download occurred again overnight to the point you were FAP'd this morning. Correct?

If so, it sounds like a download manager that doesn't think it got a complete file - and keeps attempting to download the same one over and over till it does. Alternatively, you've picked up a trojan. Have you used Windows Explorer to search for any large files with a creation date that matches your suspected download hours?

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said by grohgreg See Profile :

So you didn't power down the modem after all?

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I had the PC unplugged from the Hughesnet router all day Saturday and Sunday morning. Since the mystery download started every day at 8:00 am I thought maybe I could avoid it this way.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20433558 Mon, 05 May 2008 10:01:37 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20433383 grohgreg : So you didn't power down the modem after all?

//greg//]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20433383 Mon, 05 May 2008 09:02:37 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20433350 frazurbluu : Thanks for the replies. I had to wait until I came into work to post as we've exceed the limit again at home. Dial-up speed HAH!

I disabled the automatic Windows updates this morning. I guess now we wait to see if that fixes the problem.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20433350 Mon, 05 May 2008 08:45:56 EDT Re: Hitting the FAP limit every morning http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20430065 Lsdmeasap : Just so you know windows updates only INSTALLS at the time you set 3AM, it DOWNLOADS them anytime it feels like it!!!

I suggest you shut it OFF and do your updates manually.

Updates are sent out every month on the second Tuesday of each month>>>>
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday

You should manually do your updates then, or the following Wednesday night during FAP free time I would also suggest to manually check once a week for important smaller critical updates if you are worried about those
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Then Friday morning we hit it again. And again on Saturday morning. No one was using the internet at this time.

I called Tech support and they said we downloaded a 250 meg file each morning around 8:00 am. He suggested it might be windows updates, but I checked and these are scheduled to run at 3:00 am. I unplugged the modem so we wouldn't download whatever it is again this morning.

My question is, how do I find out what is being downloaded and by what application?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20429416 Sun, 04 May 2008 09:59:06 EDT