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What is using my network connection?
18-02-2010 7:34 PM
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I have recently rebuilt my PC after my registry files became corrupted so I've done a fresh install. All seems to be working fine but what I have noticed which is really winding me up is a process or program running which is constantly accessing my internet connection. I have a thomson router with the pc attached via a cat5 cable. I have other pcs attached wirelessly but they don't have this problem. Every two seconds the local area connection icon flashes, about 2kb of data downloaded every two seconds and this happens all the time the pc is on unless I disconnect the network. Once I do that I lose the network. It's annoying because all the time the pc os switched on and the network enabled I'm getting closer to my 10Gb limit. I've run Spybot but it can't detect anything. My virus checker can;t find anything. I have Windows update turned off and am not runnning any apps that check for updates. I've checked the processes running via the task manager but there is nothing there which seems innocuous. So what I'm looking for is something that can tell me which program or process is using the network constantly. Has anyone any suggestions? Thanks.
Steve
Re: What is using my network connection?
18-02-2010 7:43 PM
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Which version of windows are you using.
Does your firewall give the option of monitoring all outgoing activity
Re: What is using my network connection?
18-02-2010 8:01 PM
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I'm using XP sp3. I've got a tg585 v7. There doesn't seem to be an option here to monitor traffic. Excuse my ignorance but what is UPnP? THanks.
Re: What is using my network connection?
18-02-2010 8:19 PM
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Re UPnP - Google is your friend
Re: What is using my network connection?
18-02-2010 8:40 PM
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Re: What is using my network connection?
18-02-2010 10:22 PM
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Re: What is using my network connection?
18-02-2010 10:39 PM
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http://www.devicelock.com/freeware.html
No personal experience, usual caveats apply!
Regards,
Neil
Re: What is using my network connection?
18-02-2010 11:23 PM
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or perhaps it's netstat -anp
B.
Re: What is using my network connection?
19-02-2010 1:10 PM
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
Re: What is using my network connection?
19-02-2010 5:49 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
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20-02-2010 8:29 PM
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Re: What is using my network connection?
07-03-2010 1:18 PM
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A couple of suggestions here :
If you get SuperAntispyware prog. (its free - and its good) then after installing it, and updating....
GO to its icon in your system tray.... RIGHT CLICK on the icon - then LEFT CLICK where it
says `Find out whats running on your computer`
That will then take you to `The File Research Centre` and the rest is self-explanatory - it will
scan your system and bring up a full list of everything that is running, and each one will be
COLOUR CODED.... red for dangerous ect.
Link to SuperAntispyware :
http://download.cnet.com/SuperAntiSpyware-Free-Edition/3000-8022_4-10523889.html
or, from its official website here :
http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html
Next...... someone has already mentioned Unplug n play - Go to Steve Gibson`s site -
GRC - (Gibson Research Centre) and you`ll find Steve`s app for disabling that.
link
http://www.grc.com/default.htm
He`s got some very good security stuff on his site. He`s very good.
You can even test your firewall programme using another of his apps.
You can also STOP malicious scripts running in WMPlayer as well.
Hope this helps.
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