Unknown system process

[justinwonono]

Hi,

I have the following listed as a listening process -

Proccess : * ; Protocol: UDP ; LocalAdress: Localhost ; Remote Address: *.*.*.*

With no send/receive traffic.

The Process Id does not show up in taskmanager, nor systeminternals PE, although it will show up in netstat but not the executable, so how can I determine what is the orginating file.

As the process only just appeared I'm a bit concerned if it is worth worrying about or not. What is it trying to do & is it a problem & how to fix, any info, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

[Jooske]

Hi there and welcome to the forum!
Don't worry yet, those are UDP processes most probably a netstat process.
You could try unknown processes to enable socketspy on them, but with netstat sockets you can't.
In the helpfile is written some about it.

[justinwonono]

Thanks Jooske for the reply.

I tidied up some firewall rules & it hasn't happened again, the process no was was the same as used a browser process so I suspect it may have been left over after I closed the it, although it is seemed to hang around for a while.

Just quickly any idea why a process name has an " * " before it? seems to occur when a process first starts & before any traffic.

Regards


(and if noone knows what an "Uninown" system process is ..... I fully dunderstand! ... now :-) )