unknown internet activity

[webguygt]

I have just a dial up internet connection. Using widows xp pro operating system.

Last thing I updated was IE cumulative update.

The problem is that when I open an internet connection, either through my broser (ie7 or Foxpro) or I just do a virus update, after finished, the connection keeps active with activity. It's as though I'm downloading something.

I let it run for about 31/2 hours, and activity continued the whole time. I finally closed the connection, but could find nothing new downloaded on my machine. Ran a virus scan and spyware scan, both clean. I have automatic updates turned off.

Thought tonight I would install comodo fire wall to see if it could tell me what on my machine is starting this.

Any other thoughts will be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Gary

[dirtwarrior]

Alien from outter space has taken over your computer. They plan on making a pulverizing ray and destroy the earth.

Dont worry

[cluberti]

Download netmon and install it, and start watching the packets in and out of your PC to see where they are going.

[submix8c]

@dirtwarrior - ya think they should move this topic to the Funny Farm???? (rofl lmao!)

[nitroshift]

Download netmon and install it, and start watching the packets in and out of your PC to see where they are going.

Or TCPView from former Sysinternals, now Microsoft.

[cluberti]

Or TCPView from former Sysinternals, now Microsoft.

TCPView is OK, but it doesn't have any detailed information about the packets sent, and isn't a great way to track something if it opens and closes connections constantly, whereas the trace can be saved and opened and taken apart more easily and thoroughly. I like TCPView to see who's using a specific port (or range of ports), or to sometimes track long-running connections, but not for things like this. I like to watch this in a network monitor like netmon or wireshark.