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brainwave89

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Jul 7, 2006
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I am suddenly seeing I have over 700MB of data on some days being sent while I am online. I notice this in Activity Monitor. These are days when I do very light browsing and less than ten emails w/o attachments.

What can I do to find out exactly what and where all this data is being sent from?

Thank you for looking.
 
I am suddenly seeing I have over 700MB of data on some days being sent while I am online. I notice this in Activity Monitor. These are days when I do very light browsing and less than ten emails w/o attachments.

What can I do to find out exactly what and where all this data is being sent from?

Thank you for looking.

Use a packet sniffer or install Little Snitch.
I think you can try it free for three hours which should be enough for you to see where your data is going.
 
Thank you Thessman. I had forgotten about Little Snitch. This is exactly what I needed.
 
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