In Bound Traffic On Port 6881

Omega_Death

I'm using a traffic monitoring program to watch what's going on on my network. I've noticed that there is a flood of in bound traffic on port 6881 (azureus bittorrent). Normally I'm making the traffic with outbound torrents but recently there's been a large amount of inbound and I've since changed my listen port for azureus. The traffic happens reguardless of wiether or not I have torrents running and I'm wondering why. I don't remember this happening before either, the torrent traffic would stop when I shut azureus down, why now?

BulletHead

Could be incoming adware / spyware

Try installing Spybot Search and Destroy and AVGAnti Virus

minsk

How long since you changed the port? Some variants of the distributed hash table take quite a while to remove outdated information. I have been too lazy to read up on the system, but Azureus' newish Distributed DB might be producing unexpected traffic. In that case I would expect it to die off over a few days.

DC_Darkling

if you got a highspeed connection I suggest to get kerio personal firewall. (freeware for personal use, payed for companies)

It shows exactly what goes over what port on what program.
also packet scanners might be a good idea., temporarely that is

Omega_Death

Yeah it's died off. Thanks.