Query about monitoring unknown Internet traffic

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2015-10-17 at 23:50 +0200, silver.bullet at zoho.com wrote:
> Assumed you should be a Firefox user, then only open Firefox and
> Wireshark.

Why Firefox? There could be lots of things generating traffic - there is
no need to open Firefox first.

In fact it would be best to close all applications except for Wireshark,
and then see what's going on. That gives you a baseline. Maybe Firefox
is the problem, but for that data volume it seems unlikely.

Regards, K.

PS: For those wondering how to "delete all default Google entries" from
the Firefox "about:config page"- you can't. But what you *can* do is set
the entry to a blank value. To do this: Make a note of the name of the
entry first, so you can find it later. Then right click on the entry and
choose Modify. If the status is anything except "default", write down
the current value of the entry, remembering that the entry may be longer
than the displayed field size. Then delete everything out of the field
and click OK. To get the default entry back, right click on it, and
choose "Reset". To get a non-default entry back, right click on it,
choose modify, make sure the entry is completely empty, carefully type
in the value you recorded just before you cleared it, and click OK.

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