looking for a port monitor (not a firewall)

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that will monitor which applications are connection (or attempting to
connect) to what UDP or TCP ports ?
 
Active Ports:

http://www.protect-me.com/freeware.html
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This is VERY similar to TCPview (freeware) by SysInternals. In
fact someone (not me) might say it's rip-off

Some freeware firewalls have this feature built in (such as the
slightly obscure Filseclab).
or Netmon, seems abandonware, still available at:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/netmon.html
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I find that Plastic Sniffer is useful because it shows the data
passing through the port and is probably the easiest tool to do
this.

http://www.plasticwater.com/PlasticSniffer/
 
I find Active Ports is oblivious to the UDP connection when using
Neutron to get atomic time. Anyone seen this?

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Yes. I see this in both Active Ports and CurrPorts. It's because it
only takes about one tenth of a second for Neutron to get the time,
and CurrPorts is set to refresh every 2 seconds so it usually misses
it. If you keep clicking the "get atomic time" button it should appear
in the list sooner or later.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html is worth a look.
"CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the
process that opened the ports". It comes as a no install zip file.

Ric
 
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