Re: Unknown download activity in background - how to determine what it is?
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".