Robert wrote:
>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.>>


Zone Alarm Pro keeps a log of all internet activity under its "Logs and 
Alerts". It is quite informative and if you click on "more info" it will 
analyse each activity and rate it for security.

Process Monitor, freeware from www.sysninternals.com logs eavery activity. 
It will give you more info about your computer activity than you'll ever 
want to know, though it takes some expertise and patience to understand its 
readings.

Can be rather daunting. With my computer at virtual idle, it normally shows 
around 4000 "events" a second going on!  That's terrifying, but probably 
fairly normal.  It should pick up the info you want, if you carefully note 
the exact time.

Don Penlington


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