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

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Is it possible to find someone's internet history (what pages they've visited) if you have their IP address?

wen i run cmd type in netstat it dosnt show any connections nor dis tcpview any suggestions ????

hi i am sharan i have one doubt i hope i will get the answer in my office we are using proxy server it acts as a default gateway of internet.i am carrying a laptop along with me i have to connect internet thru remote place how can i connect to my proxy server .

Thanks leo ur site really helps to understand what kind of security a person has...thanks for all the good work...hope u continue with all this!

how to connect with other system thru internet
Is it possible to find someone's internet history (what pages they've visited) if you have their IP address?

when i am chating with my friend in chat room, how would i know which ip he is using

Hi, I have recently taken a broadband connection.I have Win 2000 Prof on my machine.I found that the number of packets sent were some 37,000 and teh no. of packets received was some 900.Whereas both the numbers should be almost the same.Can you please tell me why is it and how could I overcome this?

Whilst reading 'Why might my network icon show constant activity?' I was directed to this very interesting page, and went ahead with your suggestions above...
Your 2nd suggestion using 'netstat' to find Active Connections perhaps proved fruitful, as I had an entry there marked:
TCP ~ FIREFOX:1790 ~ XORN.AWABER.COM:HTTP ~ CLOSE_WAIT
There was also localhost in and out...!
So, why was XORN.AWABER.COM:HTTP marked there...? When I have SP2 firewall, Prevx1, Lavasoft Adaware & Adwatch, Spyware Blaster and Spyware Doctor all active and in my Front Line of defence…?
Interestingly, I had a gander at XORN.AWABER.COM and found an association with Go Daddy, and when I'm sifting through my red list at the email site of my ISP, and in order to keep certain email addresses listed, I take the trouble to put the URL into my browser and see perhaps who might be sending... and it is very often a site associated with Go Daddy ~ therefore, I associate sites put up with Go Daddy as spammers or similar moronic slimeballs.
However, I’m now everso slightly confused, because I just went back to look again at the site and found something quite different…! [je sui stupid!]
I had actually previously put in xorn.AWABAR.com and not aweBER.com ~ so sorry for the confusion…
But, in looking at XORN.AWABER.COM, I found that the page comes in Maxthon browser without any bells and whistles or images and yet in Firefox browser, it appears with all its glory…! Why should that be…? Or am I confusing the issue…!

Thanx in advance
Lou

Sorry Leo,
In my post above I quoted XORN.AWABER.COM:HTTP as the entry ~ perhaps I had one glass too many last night. It should have read: XORN.AWEBER.COM:HTTP ...!
Since then however, I am now also getting SPLEEN.AWEBER.COM:HTTP ...!
bUT, http://xorn.aweber.com/ and http://spleen.aweber.com/ bring up the same site...?
Lou

aweber.com is the email provider I use to send my newsletter. If you're subscribed, then it's likely that a connection was made to aweber - they do that to track how many people actually open the newsletter email. "CLOSE_WAIT" simply means that the connection, which is breif to begin with, is in the process of being closed.

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