This is a great way to identify any process, program and module that is connecting to the Internet. These programs and processes can then be analyzed to determine if the Internet connection is needed and trustworthy or not. This should just take a few seconds for most processes listed there, we all know that Firefox and Opera need a Internet connection for example.

It becomes difficulty if general processes have a Internet connection, svchost.exe for example. It’s not clear if this is needed or not and it requires some research to find out. A quick research with Process Explorer revealed that this svchost.exe process was related to the RPC – Remote Procedure Call – service that is needed for Internet Connections.

The best way to find out would be either perform a search for the process and find out if it needs an Internet connection . You could also just kill the process and see what happens but this could let to blue screens or other errors and is normally not advised.

Procx does not have to be installed and can be run from any location on your computer.

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