unattended-upgr and apt

[NoOp]

On 07/15/2008 09:57 AM, thufir wrote:
> unattended-upgr and apt frequently show up in "ps -A", which I'm looking 
> at because my GNOME System Monitor will show inexplicable network usage.
> 
> Killing these processes is a pain in the neck, but certainly correlates 
> with the network usage going back to normal.  However, as I speak it's 
> climbing again.
> 
> I don't think I'm hacked and someones using me as a bot, but I think it's 
> weird.
> 
> I've run netstat and installed some similar programs but can't get them 
> working -- but haven't read the manual on them, either.
> 
> It's gotta be a setting of some sort?

Check to see if you have Security updates set to install automatically.

System|Administration|Software Sources|Updates:Automatic Updates;"Instll
security updates without confirmation" or "Download all updates in the
background".