How can I tell what internet activity is happening on my machine?

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That does sound suspicious. I'd run a spyware scan as well.

Excellent website.

Very helpful because the responses are translated
from geektalk, to plain english.

Thank you.

Rusty

Is there any utulity which tells what program is making the connection (I know, TDI does this rudimentarily)? TDI mon has identifed a pgm, but it doesn't make sence: it's ZoneAlarm's own vsmon.exe, whose remote connection attempt is to a known spammer in mexico. I tried everything I can think to clean my system. (re-installing ZA, adaware, AV, blocking ports)(Blocking the IP in HW firewall arrests it, still, it bugs me!) Any tips?

Re: above Q
Fixed! .
Solution: Unchecked the Connect to PROXY I had been experimenting with in Internet Connection Settings before trying Firefox a few days ago!

The final straw was when firefox TalkBalk applet used the mystery IP to connect (notified by ZoneAlarm) So I'm my own worst(enemy)hacker!

Search for rogue IP (as logged by ZA and TDImon) had revealed a known spammer, using that same Proxy! Processes configured to consult Windows Internet Connection Settings were using my self-configured proxy to connect to Internet.

Doh! THanks for the use of your Forum, though. -m

Can you please explain me Uses of IP address and how can i connect a remote computer thru internet

Please do needfull

Thanks
Await u r reply

Wanna knw is I can get the IP address of the person who is chatting with me???

Leo - thanks for you site. very interesting. I have a question for you. From home, I use a VPN to connect to the main network at work. Once I'm connected I have an RDP shortcut on my home desktop to connect to the computer in my office & other networks in the company. Once I get into the computer in my office I have more RDP shortcuts to different networks in the company. Tonight, I logged into my computer at work. Then when I clicked on one of the RDP shortcuts on my work desktop to connect to another network the screen froze (the particular network was down). I can't get back to my main desktop because the screen is froze. When I try to close the RDP connection that's froze, it closes the connection to my work desktop. All I'm getting is an hour glass. Right/click doesn't bring up any options & ctrl/alt/del just closes the whole connection. Any suggestions (short of driving down there & doing ctrl/alt/del? Thanks! Rachel (Washington)

Not really. I do something similar, and it's a pain when the remote computer has crashed or is hung. Fortunately I can call someone to reboot it.

I'd disconnect (or kill in task manager) the local remote desktop connection, and try to reconnect. I'm guessing that will fail, and you, or someone you trust, will need to examine the remote machine and see why it's not responding.

Thanks Leo. I appreciate it. I couldn't figure it out from home so I went in early the next day to reboot. Turns out two servers were down. IT worked on it until about 11am. That reminds me... I need to write a "down time procedure" so employees in my department know what to do when our computer system is down. thanks again.

A few months ago I tried to certify my installation of Windows XP with Microsoft online. Things went bad. In any event, since that time I have not been able to download Media Center guide information b/c the software tells me an internet connection can't be established. This also happens with Windows "Automatic Updates". I connect to the internet via a cable broadband connection. Any idea? Need additional information?

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