Yosemite mac flooding network with packets!

[shankar2]

Hi I have a mid 2014 Mac running on Yosemite

Just today my home network became slow

I checked and found that my mac was flooding my network with packets!

I've kaspersky but I guess it didn't work

How do I find the source of these packet from my mac and how do I fix this?

Thx

 

[shankar2]

Ok i scanned using clamxav and there about 10 trojans in my Airmail app!

That means Airmail attachments are easy targets

 

[shankar2]

Well after removing all those files still the mac seems to be flooding packets into my home network hence slowing it down.

Any suggestions please?

 

[maflynn]

Get Little Snitch That will show you what's being sent out.

I'm surprised about the airmail attachments - yowza. That's something I want to be mindful of myself.

 

[shankar2]

Yeah i turned off automatic download attachments in the airmail app prefs just today

 

[shankar2]

Hey any one know of a paid or free best anti virus for the mac? I've already tried clamxav and now trying sophos

 

[Queen6]

Hey any one know of a paid or free best anti virus for the mac? I've already tried clamxav and now trying sophos

Bitdefender has a string reputation, personally I just use ClamXav and Avast depending on the system, although I am gravitating more towards Clamxav.

You can also try AwareMedic might just do the job.

Q-6

 

[shankar2]

I've tried aware medic no success

Is Avast free? Has anyone used bitdefender?

 

[Queen6]

Avast is free, Bitdefender is paid

Q-6

 

[shankar2]

Which is better avast or bitdefender?

 

[Queen6]

Which is better avast or bitdefender?

Technically Bitdefender, I have used Avast and it`s ok, equally I don't think this is the root of your issue, OS X is not so easily penetrated. Something would need to be installed and that requires Admin approval.

Q-6

 

[shankar2]

What about kaspersky antivirus

 

[shankar2]

Anyone want to help? My mac internet performance is slow now I have run clamx bitdefender

What else should I check?

 

[simonsi]

Did you install Little Snitch to see what is sending the packets? Otherwise you are guessing. LS will also stop the packets while you remove the source.

 

[shankar2]

I did but found nothing that was throwing traffic maybe my wifi speed is messed up due to Yosemite

 

[simonsi]

Well if nothing is throwing packets then the issue isn't on your Mac...how/why did you think it was your Mac in the first place?

 

[shankar2]

If I turn wifi on my mac the speedtest site shows higher stat on my other devices on the wireless network

 

[simonsi]

You'll have to re-phrase, I can't tell what you mean. Do you understand what packets are, either it is flooding your network or not, can you post a screenshot of whatever speedtest site you are seeing??

 

[shankar2]

Well just two days ago i had turned on iphoto icloud upload. So I turned it off and now wifi performance is better but have to investigate further

 

[simonsi]

Little Snitch would tell you exactly what is going on, I don't think you can have it running properly.

 

[shankar2]

Yeah it was the new apple photo icloud uploading process that was flooding my network like crazy Turned it off and things are normal

 

[simonsi]

So perfectly normal uploading then. Worth trying to understand what is going on before waving your arms around with terms like "flooding my network"...