Monitoring your PC connections with TCPView.exe

Is your antivirus or firewall really doing it's work securing your PC?

With today's growing numbers of hackers and virus writers, it's really hard for the antivirus guys to keep up. Hmmmm, Some say that these guys wrote the virus themselves so that they can sell their products.

If you are using the internet as a business platform, you might want to read on.

Here I'm going to show you this program, TCPView. You can download it here for free here at Microsoft Technet.





I normally use this program to debug my client/server programming projects. It shows which process on your computer is connected to what. But can be used for other purposes such as monitoring trojan viruses activites!



How to monitor by using this program?

Take a look at what process is running. You can see some of the process showing a familiar looking icons.








Here what you should do.
1. Ignore looking at the common process names, such as thunderbird, firefox, chrome: etc.
2. List down the unknown process to you such as, svchost.exe or avp.exe, which do not show any icons.
3. Then make a Google search for the processes or for any that you don't know.


If Google's result is showing that the program is a background process for Windows, then you should be safe. Otherwise, if Google result is showing links from antivirus websites or links to hackers websites, then you should be very afraid right about now, because someone is spying on you and you didn't know about it.



So, I hope you can understand what I'm trying to show here. I hope this can help you in some way. Feel free to drop any comments.