gHacks technology news » currports http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Realtime Network Connection Monitor http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/19/realtime-network-connection-monitor/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/19/realtime-network-connection-monitor/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:13:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=15520 Connection Monitor is a portable realtime network connection monitor for the Windows operating system. It is basically an alternative to popular portable application Curr Ports or Open Ports which is also displaying the TCP / IP network connections in realtime. Connection Monitor will display all network connections (incoming and outgoing) upon startup listing locale and remote addresses and ports, the protocol used by the connection and the status of the connection. Changes, meaning new or closed connections, are automatically displayed in the program’s interface.

The network connection data that is displayed by Connection Monitor is basic but useful for a quick overview of all network connections. The program itself lacks information that are displayed in Curr Ports, most notable the process ID and process that are using that network connection. It is therefor more difficulty to identify the running processes with Connection Monitor.

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Curr Ports (and Open Ports as well) is therefor the better alternative for users who would like to identify the processes that use the open network connections. Connection Monitor is a free download at the developer’s website. No compatibility information are displayed on the website or in the application. It worked fine on a Windows XP SP3 test system.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/19/realtime-network-connection-monitor/feed/ 1 Netlimiter 2 Monitor http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/04/netlimiter-2-monitor/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/04/netlimiter-2-monitor/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:34:08 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5205 Do you know which applications and processes connect to the Internet on your computer ? If you use a firewall chance is that you had to define rules to allow certain programs the right to connect to the Internet. Sometimes however users think of this as a burden and use low security settings to prevent that they are being pestered all day with questions from their Firewall.

Netlimiter 2 Monitor is a sweet software that displays all open processes and applications on the system detailing their incoming and outgoing bandwidth along with ports, IP addresses and process numbers. That’s basically the same amount of information that my previous favorite Currports is displaying.

The first difference is that Netlimiter Monitor has a history function where it is displaying which applications connected to the Internet before on your system. Great for quickly checking out if an app is among the list that should not be there.

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It’s definitely a great application if you want to evaluate the bandwidth usage of a process or software. I used it to keep an eye on Skype to see if my computer was used as a Skype supernode.

The Pro version of Netlimiter adds some interesting functions like Traffic Shaping, Network support, Network Tools like Whois and Traceroute, Remote Administration and Advanced Rules.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/04/netlimiter-2-monitor/feed/ 0 Who is connected to your pc right now ? http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/06/who-is-connected-to-your-pc-right-now/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/06/who-is-connected-to-your-pc-right-now/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:11:30 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=107 CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.

In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.

CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications (Applications without version information and icons)

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#only 36K, freeware, no system changes, download and run
#runs on all windows versions but older versions show less details

download nirsoft.net

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