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Monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC - what should I use?
On my Windows XP computer, I sometimes see the task bar network icon light up indicating that a bunch of information is coming in or out of my computer. Just now it happened, and was apparently a Firefox update (at least, Firefox wanted to update itself soon after the activity died down).
How can I conveniently tell right away what all the network activity is? I'm aware of Wireshark, but it's a little more low-level than I'm interested in for this purpose. (Or maybe I just don't know how to use wireshark well enough.) I'm hoping there's some tool that will figure out which address the bulk of the packets are coming from, and do a reverse DNS lookup to tell (if possible) what the source is.
This question is actually a duplicate of this one: http://superuser.com/questions/22569/monitor-all-and-any-internet-traffic-from-my-home-pc-what-should-i-use-closed. However, this other question was closed too fast as having duplicate, but it was wrong, it was indeed the only question about a tool to show which programs are using the connection. Proposition, or this one stays open and becomes the reference, or this one is closed as duplicate and the other one reopened.
– Gnoupi – 2009-11-09T20:37:03.597