The Honda Owners Club

Did you know that the BBC iPlayer uses P2P technology to get the programs you want to watch - and that it uses YOUR computer to share it out again? And that you cannot turn it off?

No? Neither did I until I wondered why my disk drives were hammering (C: running at 99%) and my network running when I wasn't doing anything. So, I investigated and found a nasty little program called Kservice from Kontiki running away. A bit of internet checking and I found all about it.

So, I have uninstalled iPlayer and the whole system is much quieter and more responsive now.

If you feel your system should be running faster, check out if you have iPLayer loaded (also called BBC Dowload Manager). If so, get rid of it.

Alan

Blo**dy hell Alan, I didn't realise that.

Sometimes I sit here and wonder why my PC is churning away while I'm not doing anything!

I use BBC iPlayer and Download Manager to watch stuff (I don't watch much "live" TV)

What to do...

Thanks for that.........

You can quit the services in the Task Manager and continue to use iPlayer for streaming - just not downloading for later.

Suits me!

Cheers for that.
my laptop, a 2ghz single processor running vista struggles as it is. after i deleted the bbc downloader, it runs so much better