Port Explorer Question

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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