If you do a cntrl-alt-del and bring up task manager you should be able to 
tell
which process is using the cpu the most at the time you are noticing the 
activity.
If you can not decipher the mnemonic for the process, you may be able to 
find
information about it through a search engine such as Google.com.  This
may shed some light on what's happening.

William
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Citkowitz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:53 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Who is sending to/from my computer?


> Every so often my dialup gets bogged down by an unknown file transfer. 
> Sometimes I am later informed that something has been updated, which is 
> reassuring, but usually I don't know what has been happening.
> I have an incoming/outgoing software firewall (preloaded McAfee), but I 
> still want to know what is being updated, if something is going out to 
> someone, especially if the someone was able to bypass the firewall, who is 
> writing to my hard drive.
> Is there some way to identify the site to which I am connected, and what 
> is going in/out?
> Rob
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