Activity monitor shows network activity even with ethernet and wifi disconnected

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Activity monitor shows network activity even with ethernet and wifi disconnected

Activity monitor shows network activity even with ethernet and wifi disconnected.
Since yesterday, a constant 528bytes of download and upload, but sometimes I see Sophoswebintelligence receiving data... 1,60GB since yesterday!!! forced it to terminate but the problem continue.
Little snitch doesn't detect any connection or traffic.
Can anyone help me figure this out?!

Thanks.

MacBook (13-inch Late 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), 8GB ram

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 4:20 AM

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Answer 1

WZZZ

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Oct 18, 2014 8:06 AM in response to Clarinet girl

This is what I'm seeing from the Network tab, in Activity Monitor, with Airport off/no Internet connection.

The graph is still showing activity, packets keep bouncing between 8 and 9 and data steady at between 528 and 527. Is this what you're seeing? I have no explanation for the graph showing movement, and the slight changes of data and packets, but this would appear to be normal. I also have iStat Menus installed, which, with Airport off, is not showing any Network activity.

Someone who knows more than I will perhaps be able to explain the continued Network activity showing in Activity Monitor.

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Answer 2

Oct 22, 2014 6:02 AM in response to WZZZ

First of all, sorry for this late reply. And thank you for yours.
When I use nettop command on terminal it doesn't show me anything strange... but I don't really know what to see, so...
Thank you for your reply.

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