Has your internet connection become slower than it should be? There may be a chance that you have some malware, spyware, or adware that is using your internet connection in the background without your knowledge. Here’s how to see what’s going on under the hood. How to Check What Your Computer is Connecting To So, how do you find out what the problem is? There is an easy method using the netstat command from a command prompt(see the link at the end of this article) and run cports.exe. For each port that CurrPorts lists, information about the process that opened the port is displayed. You can select connections and close them, copy a port’s information to the clipboard or save it to an HTML file, an XML file, or a tab-delimited text file. You can reorder the columns displayed on the CurrPorts main window and in the files you save. To sort the list by a specific column, simply click on the header of that column. CurrPorts runs under Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windo...