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

Jeff eatmy at grits.com
Sun Aug 28 16:28:52 EDT 2005


Thanks!  I'll give it a try!

"Doug Thegarden" <DougThegarden at invalid.com> wrote in message news:detdno$e8t$2 at news.spamcop.net...
> 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




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