Suspect Virus - supportdownload.apple.com 36GB in 2 days!

[lmorum]

Please help me - I suspect I may have a virus on my Mac. I downloaded the free antivirus product from pcTools but it finds nothing.

My mac has used huge bandwidth in the last couple of days - I have Wingate installed and I ran a report which shows the bandwidth was while connected to supportdownload.apple.com !!!

I pay huge $$ for bandwidth here in South Africa so this has been a costly discovery.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance!

 

[Tallest Skil]

I downloaded the free antivirus product from pcTools but it finds nothing.

That'd be because there is nothing to find.

Try restarting your browser and/or your computer. Then check to see if the bandwidth is still being... er... taken... by that.

 

[Akitakoi]

Two words for you... Little Snitch.

 

[EmperorDarius]

If you suspect that it's a virus that iAntivirus doesn't detect, post in the iAntivirus forum:http://www.pctools.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=66

But I'd follow Akitakoi's suggestion and try Little Snitch to see what is downloading that stuff.

 

[krackers]

not a virus.

Use others suggestions.
If all fails just reinstall osx

 

[lmorum]

What could it have been?

Thanks for all the advice - I did download little snitch - but Murphy's law my mac isn't using much bandwidth right now.

I can't imagine it being some rogue application because according to my firewall reports all the traffic came from supportdownload.apple.com

So that begs the question - is it my Mac OS behaving badly? What caused it - and how can I prevent this from happening again?

Thanks again.

 

[t0mat0]

Hmm, did you download an update recently? Power Mac users - is there a way to get at a log to see if the bandwidth was an OS/software update being downloaded?