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I am suddenly using data at an alarming rate--cloudfront.net
Hi cloudfront.net is showing on my Glasswire suddenly and it is using a lot of data. Can one of you fine people tell me how to get rid of it? I looked on the internet and it says its connected to ...
BirdDog wrote:You could have a rootkit virus. Try the beta Malwarebytes anti-rootkit program, it works well: https://www.malwarebytes.com/antirootkit/
Good idea.
I use Norton Power Eraser for the same.
thanks Gabe--I have also ran cccleaner.
You could have a rootkit virus. Try the beta Malwarebytes anti-rootkit program, it works well: https://www.malwarebytes.com/antirootkit/
BirdDog wrote:You could have a rootkit virus. Try the beta Malwarebytes anti-rootkit program, it works well: https://www.malwarebytes.com/antirootkit/
Good idea.
I use Norton Power Eraser for the same.
Thanks everyone--tried all of the above, Guess i'll go back to the drawing board
Just today I have a couple of cloudfront entries in my hosts, and by using the sliders and finding the time the entries appeared, and corresponding them to my Chrome history, I can see that the those entries were actually tied to when I was searching Amazon a little earlier for an indoor grill. It's just an idea of something that you could try.
Granted, it's not a lot of data in comparison to the rest, but it may help to figure out what it's tied to.
