How to view the current connections?

[MELjiip]

Hi, guys!
Who can tell me how to view the current running connections of my pc?
Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[pedstersplanet]

This is a monitor for trojan ports (breaks them if someone connects) and shows who's connecting to what port, I have it on my home server
ProPort

or try TCP View

[mikmik]

That TCPView is great, eh?

You can go to the Command prompt (Start button/Run/ then type cmd.exe and click ok) ant type in: netstat -an
You get this:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>netstat -an

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:1025 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:3572 127.0.0.1:3573 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:3573 127.0.0.1:3572 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.168.100:139 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 192.168.168.100:3574 216.239.63.104:80 CLOSE_WAIT
UDP 0.0.0.0:445 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:1026 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:1028 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:1250 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:2799 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:2800 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:2801 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:123 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:1027 *:*
UDP 192.168.168.100:123 *:*
UDP 192.168.168.100:137 *:*
UDP 192.168.168.100:138 *:*

or go to http://www.diamondcs.com.au/openports/ and get 'openports'. Open the command prompt, and just drag and drop the 'openports.exe' into the window - hit 'enter'. Then you get this:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>"C:\Documents and Settings\aamikel\Desktop\openports.exe"
DiamondCS OpenPorts v1.0 (-? for help)
Copyright (C) 2003, DiamondCS - http://www.diamondcs.com.au/openports/
Free for personal and educational use only. See openports.txt for more details.
__________________________________________________ _____________________________

SYSTEM [4]
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 192.168.168.100:139 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 192.168.168.100:137 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 192.168.168.100:138 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
firefox.exe [188]
TCP 127.0.0.1:3572 127.0.0.1:3573 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:3573 127.0.0.1:3572 ESTABLISHED
svchost.exe [696]
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
svchost.exe [760]
UDP 127.0.0.1:123 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 192.168.168.100:123 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
smc.exe [800]
UDP 127.0.0.1:1027 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:1026 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
svchost.exe [968]
UDP 0.0.0.0:2799 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:1028 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:2800 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:1250 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:2801 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
alg.exe [1568]
TCP 127.0.0.1:1025 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

This is a daedly site to get the commands for netstat and other network information with windows:
http://www.vlaurie.com/computers2/Ar.../tcpiputil.htm

[98709bill]

An easy way is to use a firewall which has a "Net State" function that can show the currently active connections and the details of these connections. I know Armor2net Personal Firewall can do that. You can have a try! http://www.armor2net.com
Hope this help!

[Deep13]

aactually the method mentioned by mikmik is the best one but still if you do not want to use command prompt then you can use software called X Netstat but it is not free one, or you can use any of the software mentioned by pedstersplanet

Regards
Deep

[joydeep2012]

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