Re: What is connecting to the internet.

From: Jonathan Martin (jmartin@srisk.com)
Date: 04/08/03 

From: "Jonathan Martin" <jmartin@srisk.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:20:23 -0400

What type of firewall is it? Does it have a virtual server? Have you played
with setting restricted sites up in Internet Explorer?
"Alice" <ionu@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:3E92F5A6.6F434BD5@btinternet.com...
> Problem:
>
> Small network 40 pc sharing a single internet connection thought a
> firewall.
>
> Firewall software reports over 300MB of data trafic to a website about
> 10 of the client machines are connecting to this site (none of the
> operaters are aware of it.)
>
> Is there some software I can install on the client machine to monitor
> what programs are connecting to the internet and what sites are being
> connected to. So I can find which program is hogging all the bandwidth.
>
> BTW the site it is connecting to does not exist anymore
> (sportinglife.com) (I have blocked the site in the firewall and still
> the data flows, I have blocked all ports to the site both www address
> and IP address)
>
> I have spent the last two days trying to track this down and am running
> out of ideas. Any help welcom.
>
>
>

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