Guest dc Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: Unknown download activity in background - how to determine what it is? "Andy Walker" <awalker@nspank.invalid> wrote in message news:46acf1f3.108514421@news.webtv.com... > dc wrote: > > >Andy, > > > >What does the -b parameter do? > > Here is the help description from netstat: > > -b Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or > listening port. In some cases well-known executables host > multiple independent components, and in these cases the > sequence of components involved in creating the connection > or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable > name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called, > and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option > can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient > > You can use an alternative method through the use of the -o switch. > > -o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection. > > In order to determine the process name you can run task manger > (ctrl-alt-del), select view/select columns and add Process Identifier. > This will allow you to match the process ID output from the netstat > command with a process name. > > >I couldn't find it, and when I included it, I got the help legend. > > Older versions of the netstat command did not include the -b switch. > > >After looking at the legend, I did this... > >c:\netstat -na > netstat.txt > >Did you mean to use another pararmeter > >and if so, what is the command > > See the -o info above. > > >What is this for? c:\more netstat.txt > > It is the "more" command used to read the file "netstat.txt" created > when you used the ">" pipe command. Using more allows you to see the > entire file one page at a time. You could also use a text reader like > notepad or to stay in the DOS window try "edit netstat.txt". Thank you Andy, Appreciate your taking the time dc
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