If not update activity, what is it?

I'm new to Win 7 (2 weeks). Initially there were dozens of updates to
the OS and to MS applications that were installed on the PC. It stopped
after a few days.

In the past 2 days I've noticed a lot of downloading from 65.54.81.xxx.
This AM, over 170 MB of data was downloaded from 1 IP address. This
site closed, and another 65.54.81.xxx site started downloading many MB
of data.

I don't have any MS application open, only the OS. No updates are
showing up waiting to be installed. IF I interrogate windows update, no
updates are found that need to be downloaded.


Scanning with avira antivirus, malware bytes and super anti spyware show
a clean PC.

This is really hitting my bandwidth hard.
Any ideas?

Automatic Updates Enabled by any chance. Did you check the Logs to see what is
downloading?

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"Peter" <> wrote in message news:jgh4iv$gt6$...
> I'm new to Win 7 (2 weeks). Initially there were dozens of updates to the OS and
> to MS applications that were installed on the PC. It stopped after a few days.
>
> In the past 2 days I've noticed a lot of downloading from 65.54.81.xxx. This AM,
> over 170 MB of data was downloaded from 1 IP address. This site closed, and
> another 65.54.81.xxx site started downloading many MB of data.
>
> I don't have any MS application open, only the OS. No updates are showing up
> waiting to be installed. IF I interrogate windows update, no updates are found
> that need to be downloaded.
>
>
> Scanning with avira antivirus, malware bytes and super anti spyware show a clean
> PC.
>
> This is really hitting my bandwidth hard.
> Any ideas?

On 2/3/2012 3:51 PM, Peter Foldes wrote:
> Automatic Updates Enabled by any chance. Did you check the Logs to see
> what is downloading?
>
Automatic updates are and have been enabled all along. When I noticed
all the activity I ran a manual "get updates" to see what might be
coming at me. The result: I am up to date and no updates are available
for download. My update history log shows no updates installed for the
past 3-4 days.

I saw which IP was causing all the activity when I went to my firewall's
active connection monitor and did a whois search on the IP; it came up
with MS in Richmond WA.

What logs can I check to see what is downloading in real time (or what
was downloaded that apparently is not an update?)