Stealth prog running?

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August 2nd, 2003, 11:23 AM
Livlee

Stealth prog running?

I'm not sure if I have a hidden prog running that's eating my bandwidth. If I play a game online my ping will be about 172 then jump up to 1000+ :/. I've never had this problem before now so I was wondring if there might be a hidden prog running on my system some where.

I've ran Adaware, Spybot, Norton Virus and Evidence Eliminator (to clear all the rubish out) but it all seems ok as they have found nothing bad on my system.

I was wondering about this digichat client I downloaded.. I when't to remove it but that's no where to be found?

Any suggestions?
August 2nd, 2003, 12:59 PM
blue_wolf

What OS are you using?
Do you believe you are possibly being owned?
August 2nd, 2003, 01:45 PM
Cybr1d

It could also be the server u'r playing in. That happens to me too sometimes. Give us more specs and names of any programs that are usually running on the background in your PC
August 2nd, 2003, 04:27 PM
keezel

You should also run a trojan scan. I hear Swatit is good....you can find it here: http://swatit.org/.
August 2nd, 2003, 04:53 PM
DeadAddict

have you tried contacting tech support they should tell you how to uninstall the software if you wanted to do so in the future
August 3rd, 2003, 12:08 PM
Livlee

Quote:

Do you believe you are possibly being owned?

Lol.. I don't reckon that's the problem.

I'll have a looky at that trojan scan.

thx,
August 3rd, 2003, 10:33 PM
jaguar291

I'd have to go with Cybr1d on this one... play on a few different servers and see if its still happening..

Could you also post your connection type and what game this is...? (200- sounds like a really good 56k connection or a really bad cable connection...)
August 3rd, 2003, 10:51 PM
keezel

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sounds like a really good 56k connection or a really bad cable connection

I'm still awed by how big the difference is between 56k and cable/dsl/t1....I'm so addicted to dsl now that when I use 56k on a friend's computer it drives me insane and I won't do anything other than check email. I think it's kinda funny that what one would consider to be an excellent 56k connection would be a crappy connection for cable or dsl :) .
August 4th, 2003, 02:36 PM
SirDice

If you're playing Half-life (or any of the mods like Counter-strike) the server you play on or you may be under attack.

Quote:

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Applications: Half-Life (http://half-life.sierra.com)
Versions: 1.1.1.0 and previous versions (including all MODs
based on the game, such as Counter-Strike and DoD)
3.1.1.1c1 and 4.1.1.1a of the free dedicated server
Platforms: Windows and Linux
Bugs: Remote buffer overflow and Denial of Service
Risk High
Author: Auriemma Luigi
Senior Security Researcher, PivX Solutions, LLC
e-mail: [email protected]
web: http://www.pivx.com/luigi/

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August 5th, 2003, 08:11 PM
Grinler

Could also be a program that is chewing up alot of cpu. High cpu can cause pings to climb and packets to drop on some machines. Have you installed anything new that has a program that runs constantly as a process?

May be something to check