HTTP.Download.Accelerator
Description
This indicates an attempt to create multi-threaded download sessions via a download accelerator.Download accelerators increase their speed by using "HTTP range header" to retrieve multiple chunks of a file simultaneously. The signature detects such parallel downloads.
However, this signature ignores single threaded downloads because they are the same as normal browser downloads.
Affected Products
HTTP Download
Impact
Network bandwidth consumption
Technology
Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device
Behavior
- Excessive-Bandwidth
Default Ports
- TCP/80
- TCP/443
- UDP/443