Port Explorer Question

[worldcitizen]

Hi Everyone,

Since I've used the new version of PE I've noticed twice 2 strange happenings.

I could see my connection was active and brought up the properties and it was definitely downloading something so I opened PE but it didn't show any ports downloading anything or any active ports???

There was nothing in the 'established' section so I just don't know what was downloading and would like to know but PE didn't detect any active connections. This has happened twice now. Does PE have to be running before a port is active to detect it or is this a bug in the latest version??

Would appreciate any comments very much.

Dave

[Pilli]

Hi Worldcitizen, Port Explorer needs to be running as far as I am aware.
Although it should catch it after a short period of time, again I am not certain about that.
I have just loaded PE with cryptoSuite open and running and PE caught all four connections within a few seconds.

HTH Pilli

[Jooske]

Think the dll is running in the background all time, but displaying activity in the log and socket spy might only happen after activating the GUI?
As a registeerd PE user you could get sloader from the PE download site and see if you can catch what is being downloaded or active before windows itself is started.

[worldcitizen]

Thanks for that Jooseke & Pilli. I got sloader and will give it a go next time it happens. It's really hard to tell what happened because my firewall never alerted me either.

Dave