Tech Tip

Like my Friday Tweet of the week, I have decided to provide obscure Tech Tips on Monday.

Today's tip: Is your computer secretly connecting to the internet?

Have you ever wondered why your computer is running slow? Why you are seeing so much disk activity or just plain curious to know if your computer has been hijacked?  Well, here's the solution.

1. Open a Command window. If you don't know how to do that click Start -> Run and type "cmd" on the Open line and hit enter.
2. At the command prompt type, netstat -b 5 > netstat.txt. The -b switch will display the executable involved in creating each connection or listening port.
3. After a few minutes press CTRL+C.
4. At the command prompt type netstat.txt to open the file in your default editor.
5. Look for any process or websites you are unaware.
6. Use Task Manager to kill the process or open Computer Management and turn off the service.

I hope you enjoyed this topic and found it helpful.