Five tools for monitoring windows pc’s network activity

Monitoring your pc’s network activity will help you to find about which app is eating your bandwidth or which is backdoor or worm connecting back to its command center server . here is five awesome tools to make your life easier .

1 . Windows Resource Monitor

Its comes in bundle with Windows Operating System Itself , You don’t have to download or install anything else . you can monitor processes with network activity and network activity , means what they are doing and with whom , also you can monitor TCP connections and Listening ports with graphical representation . its pretty much great tool to monitor your windows pc .

How to Open Windows Resource Monitor

Open task manager
Click on performance tab
Click on open resource monitor

OR

just search in windows for ” Resource Monitor ” and choose and open

and if you want to advance graphical representation with some more tools lets see next tool .

2 . Microsoft Network Monitor

Microsoft Network Monitor is a protocol analyzer its allow you to capture and analyze network traffic in real-time . you can see detailed info of captured packets. ( its like wireshark from Microsoft 🙂 )

Download : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4865

Download and install just like another windows program , its requires login and logout to take effect after doing that you are good to go . fire-up windows network monitor and start capturing packets .

And Yes instead of all choose System to monitor only your pc’s network activity otherwise it will monitor all traffic in

your network

3 . GlassWire

GlassWire is another awesome app for monitoring windows network activity , its visualization is awesome .its visualize geographical location of connected servers .

Visualize your current and past network activity by traffic type, application, and geographic location, on an easy to use graph. GlassWire lets you see what applications are sending out data over the Internet and shows you what hosts they are communicating with. Our Windows network security monitor also looks for; domains or IP addresses that are known threats, networking system file changes, unusual application changes, ARP spoofing and more.

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