A firewall such as Zone Alarm monitors traffic both ways, if
you don't give a program blanket permission, it will trigger
a pop up prompt when a programs seeks Internet/LAN access
(this would be session-logon permission).
Also a LAN will have traffic as the NIC will be sending out
signals to let the network know it is there, kind of like a
bunch of Girl Scouts on a camping trip, shouting from tent
to tent.



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"Philip Ashley" <philip.ashleyRE@MOVEntlworld.com> wrote in
message news:vfBbf.3509$c66.1196@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
| this program has a good interface that shows what
processes are active
|
| http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html
|
| hth
|
| philip ashley
|
| "JimS" <JimS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:949955A3-6085-4688-AAAF-5B44F21FAB65@microsoft.com...
| > On all of my computers, I'm seeing network activity on
my net adapter
| > (flashing light) coordinated with disk activity, but not
applications
| > are
| > running. Now, I am running msn messenger, but not signed
in. And of
| > course,
| > dozens of processes of myriad names.
| > How can I tell just which processes are connected to the
network, and
| > which
| > are using it? I'm concerned that I have an unidentified
spy or 'bot'
| > process
| > running. Is there a log file or a monitor I can run? The
standard
| > monitor
| > shows virtually no activity.
| > --
| > Jim
|