Re: Finding out strange traffic



Sometimes here will open a cmd window and do a netstat -o (owner) which ties
product id to connected ip#'s then look in taskmanger to ID match the
product.


"Antti Mattila" <antti.mattilaremovethis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have been investingating strange traffic that tries to connect to remote
> port 80 on the Internet. There has been tens of different sites and they
> seem
> to have nothing in common.
>
> Virus DATs are in order, I have scanned the computers with Spybot and
> Adaware.
> And still it continues. I installed desktop firewalls even to desktops and
> blocked port 80 and took a log. I'm pretty sure that no program that was
> intentionally installed is causing the traggic.
>
> Log shows that svchost.exe is connecting all around the world very
> frequently on port 80.
>
> Windows networking maybe easy to use as a programmer as you can use these
> svchost etc. services for your networking needs, but how the hell do I
> find
> out which program has started them (including from where)? Programs like
> TCPView show that which command line has been used to start for example
> svchost. But I have never seen anything except legimate looking rpcss or
> something like that.
>
> I think this is a shortcoming in Windows networking. Any ideas how can I
> dig
> deeper?


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