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By Steve Spalding November 1st, 2007
Under: How To Read Shorts
Find Out If Your Computer Is Secretly Connecting To The Web - video powered by Metacafe
This is a great tip from the folks at Screencastr. Find out which of your processes are connecting to the Internet. It’s a great way to see if your computer is being used as a zombie without your knowledge.
Here are the show notes.
- Open up a console.
- Type “netstat -b 5 > activity.txt”
- Wait about two minutes.
- Press Control C
- Type “activity.txt” into the command line.
- Review the log and if you find something suspicious it’s time to figure out how to squash it.
But that’s an entirely different post.
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