Looking for something to monitor Internet traffic so I can see what is
causing the activity on my connection please.
Any help will be appreciated.
Les Smith
Les,
The best tools would be the activity log on your firewall or router - you do
have one, don't you? If not, Zone Alarm Free is good
<
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp> (Free
Download).
Also, I use Port Explorer, which includes a small packet analyser
<
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/portexplorer/index.php?page=home>. Or TCPView
<
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/tcpview.shtml>. Both Port Explorer
and TCPView will identify the process generating the traffic, which you can then
check out further with Process Explorer
<
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>.
And, Les, identifying excessive traffic is a good idea. Another good idea is
cutting down on it, by reducing spam. Please don't contribute to the spread and
success of email address mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address
properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect
yourself and the rest of the internet - read this article.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
