Hi,
I'm new to Macs, and was hoping to have my fears allayed (or confirmed, as the case may be), regarding an issue which is kind of freaking me out at the moment. I have a 6 month old Macbook Pro, connected via wireless DSL router to the Internet, with no other networking connections. I've noticed that when I inspect my network traffic in the Activity Monitor, my sent data always seems to be about half of the received (total and rate). For instance, I was just downloading a 2 GB TV episode from iTunes, and 1 GB of data was apparently sent during the process, with no other applications (that I know of) running. This seems very high to me. I noticed a similar ratio when I tested watching a Youtube video (in Firefox), and when connected wired. Also, I notice that someties recently when downloading from iTunes, the download slows down noticeably after the first ~100 MB or so. Is this indicative of some kind of virus or malware? I have Trend Micro SmartSurfing and antivirus, and it doesn't seem to find anything wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I'm new to Macs, and was hoping to have my fears allayed (or confirmed, as the case may be), regarding an issue which is kind of freaking me out at the moment. I have a 6 month old Macbook Pro, connected via wireless DSL router to the Internet, with no other networking connections. I've noticed that when I inspect my network traffic in the Activity Monitor, my sent data always seems to be about half of the received (total and rate). For instance, I was just downloading a 2 GB TV episode from iTunes, and 1 GB of data was apparently sent during the process, with no other applications (that I know of) running. This seems very high to me. I noticed a similar ratio when I tested watching a Youtube video (in Firefox), and when connected wired. Also, I notice that someties recently when downloading from iTunes, the download slows down noticeably after the first ~100 MB or so. Is this indicative of some kind of virus or malware? I have Trend Micro SmartSurfing and antivirus, and it doesn't seem to find anything wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
