HELP, how to view that?

[S98098]

I want to view the current running connections of my pc, so how?

Would appreciate your advice!

[MARYY]

I'm not sure what you're looking for.

But you may try a firewall which has a "Net State" function that can show the currently active connections and the details of these connections.

I know Armor2net Personal Firewall can do that. You may have a try. Get it from http://www.armor2net.com. Hope this helps!

[Redhat]

Use this :) http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/tcpview.shtml

Or if you're familiar with the command line, start>run>cmd> netstat -an :)

[madboy33]

if you have XP you need to go to start>all programmes>accessories and then command prompt and then netstat -an

as redhat has said

[scuzzman]

A little information on reading the netstat data may be in order...

What you'll come up with is this type of output:

C:\>netstat -a -n

Active Connections
  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
  TCP    0.0.0.0:42             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:88             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:135            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:389            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:445            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:593            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:1038           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

The way this works is:

Col 1 is the protocol, basically what type of data

Col2: the ip address and port of the computer you're on in this format ip:port where ip is 0.0.0.0 and port is 42

Col3: the ip address and port of the computer you're connected to in this format ip:port where ip is 0.0.0.0 and port is 0

Col4: The current state of the connection, whether it is LISTENING: awating connection, or ESTABLISHED: connected

[homecomputeraid]

TCPView is a nice option because it lets you terminate suspicious connections.