[LINK] One must wonder

[Howard Lowndes]

It does beg the question though, as to why it is necessary to go to 
proprietary or shareware products to do the same thing that you can get 
to do for free under FOSS...


Adam Neat wrote:
> If people are keen to understand what processes running on their Windows box
> are making network connections, look for a tool called F-Port. Lists all
> network connections (in all states) in a similar manner to netstat, but then
> also associates each process to network connections (in all states).
> 
> Also take a look at what Network Ice and McAfee offer in the way of system
> monitoring - both can be setup to watch your machine for applications that
> are starting up and or attempting to access the network. 
> 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-
>>bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
>>Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:01 PM
>>To: link at anu.edu.au
>>Subject: Re: Re: [LINK] One must wonder
>>
>>The alternative, of course, is inaccurate reporting.
>>
>>FUD, of course, is not the sole preserve of vendors.
>>
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314056
>>
>>You can easily identify services operating under svchost. You could just
>>as easily terminate each process, one-by-one, if you were desperate to
>>identify which one was initiating a communications session.
>>
>>Most simply of all, you can tell the firewall (not the windows firewall,
>>but something like ZoneLabs) that svchost is not allowed to contact the
>>Internet.
>>
>>Of course none of these would occur to Joe Sixpack but the subject of the
>>story identifies himself as a tech consultant. Methinks he's identified a
>>journalist who hasn't the ability to verify the technical details for
>>himself ...
>>
>>RC
>>
>>
>>>From: Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au>
>>>Date: 01/09/2005 12:10:21
>>>To: Stephen Loosley <stephen at melbpc.org.au>
>>>CC: link at anu.edu.au
>>>Subject: Re: [LINK] One must wonder
>>>
>>>Stephen Loosley wrote:
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