Simon,<br><br>Sorry to hear about these troubles. The router may log activity which could be used to pinpoint the source of the traffic which could be used in conjunction with the log at the desk to narrow down the cause of the problem if required.<br>
<br>I finish up work for the holidays on Tuesday afternoon, I'll try and pop along and check all of the machines making sure that they have the latest patch level and are virus,bot and rootkit free to such extents as time permits. I hope we won't get stung for a similar bill for December.<br>
<br>As Yasmin has already pointed out, I don't think covering the additional charges will be a problem.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Martin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 December 2010 14:57, Simon Yuill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@lipparosa.org">simon@lipparosa.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
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Our bill for the broadband has come in this month with almost<br>
£25 of additional charges on top of our normal usage.<br>
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This has been incurred due to almost 60GB of excess traffic on the<br>
broadband account which has happened between 19th and 30th November.<br>
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I am guessing that this is either due to someone downloading a hell of a<br>
lot of stuff, or running a file-sharing client on one of the machines,<br>
or one of the machines in the room being exploited via a bot or such.<br>
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If anyone knows anything related to this please get in touch (either<br>
on-list of off).<br>
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best wishes<br>
Si<br>
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