[SpamCop-List] Re: Track TCP/IP transmissions made by background processes

[Doug Thegarden]

Jeff wrote:
> I have some background processes that are running that I can't stop.
> When I try to stop them, they simply spawn a new process and rename
> themselves as a .exe file with a random 7 character filename. Neither
> ad-aware nor Microsoft's spyware software detects them, nor does
> Norton Antivirus.  I'm assuming these programs are either sending or
> receiving transmissions over the internet without me knowing.  Is
> there a way to find out if they're transmitting or receiving data
> over the internet?
> 

TCPView will list all the processes and tell you where they are going.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html

Doug