Unknown download activity in background - how to determine what it is?

[Straight Talk]

You don't know what you are talking about, why don't you monitor one of
the apps and find out what is going on.

That's what I did.

It isn't Windows doing the
calling it's the application itself. Being that you are so smart and
that I know nothing you should at least do a few tests before you post
about things you pretend to know of.

It's pretty obvious who doesn't know what he's talking about....

 

[John John]

That's what I did.

You did no such thing with the newer Sysinternal apps mentioned
elsewhere, if you had you would have seen that the utilities establish
outbound connections if you use the help files. Why and for what
reasons you now chose to post lies is something that only you know.
Being that you now insist on lying my discussion with you is over.

John

 

[Straight Talk]

You did no such thing with the newer Sysinternal apps mentioned
elsewhere,

Yes, I did.

if you had you would have seen that the utilities establish
outbound connections if you use the help files.

Yes, that what it looks like. However, it's actually a windows issue.
How will you otherwise explain that changing the Internet settings in
the registry fixes it?

Why and for what reasons you now chose to post lies is something that only
you know. Being that you now insist on lying my discussion with you is over.

You are either pathetic or just trolling.

 

[dc]

Andy,

What does the -b parameter do?

Here is the help description from netstat:

-b Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or
listening port. In some cases well-known executables host
multiple independent components, and in these cases the
sequence of components involved in creating the connection
or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable
name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called,
and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option
can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient

You can use an alternative method through the use of the -o switch.

-o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.

In order to determine the process name you can run task manger
(ctrl-alt-del), select view/select columns and add Process Identifier.
This will allow you to match the process ID output from the netstat
command with a process name.

I couldn't find it, and when I included it, I got the help legend.

Older versions of the netstat command did not include the -b switch.

After looking at the legend, I did this...
c:\netstat -na > netstat.txt
Did you mean to use another pararmeter
and if so, what is the command

See the -o info above.

What is this for? c:\more netstat.txt

It is the "more" command used to read the file "netstat.txt" created
when you used the ">" pipe command. Using more allows you to see the
entire file one page at a time. You could also use a text reader like
notepad or to stay in the DOS window try "edit netstat.txt".

Thank you Andy,
Appreciate your taking the time

dc