Re: Finding which programme started an outgoing connection

["Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler () tysdomain com>]

The only way to know if a program is configured to connect to that IP 
would be to attach a debugger and start poking through it. I would 
recommend starting at startup, but netstat or something similar is going 
to be your best bet.
On 2/8/2011 9:32 PM, Nikhil Manampady wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
>
> Alternatively you can check in the registry whether any program is
> configured to load at startup and connect to that particular IP.
>
> In Windows XP, it was
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. On
> the right you will see programs which will be loaded at startup. You
> would probably need to check the same in Win 7.
>
> Alternatively check in services.msc whether there are any programs
> which are running which are not required. Maybe stopping some or one
> of them might solve the issue.
>
>
> Thanks&  Regards,
> Nikhil Manampady,
> Security Consultant.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Littlefield, Tyler<tyler () tysdomain com>  wrote:
> > Have you thought of running netstat? This may be a longshot, but you could create a script that starts on startup that 
> > checks netstat, or you can start it right as you boot up yourself to see what opens that program.
> > On 2/5/2011 4:38 AM, Tom Causer wrote:
> > > Hello List,
> > >
> > > This is more of an end user question then anything else:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I use zone alarm on my pc, and it is alerting that some during boot up
> > > is attempting to connect (UDP) to an IP address in the Netherlands
> > > 81.171.115.5 (it looks like some colocation service over there).
> > >
> > > Now I would like to know how I can track back to find out what service
> > > is making that connection during boot up, but I have no idea how I
> > > would go about doing that?   (Other then setting up a hub with my
> > > desktop and capture in wireshark, which I can do fine, its just the
> > > analysis of the traffic to find out whats causing it, so I would
> > > rather not do that step)
> > >
> > > Using Windows 7 OS.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
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Thanks,
Ty


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