[Way OT:] Google *really* cares

Kinda makes me wonder now ... because sometimes I see activity when there shouldn't be any . So tell me , how is that done , how can I see who is connected to my comps ? -- Snag Learning keeps you young !

Once in a while I see activity when there shouldn't be any and I usually find a "leftover" MS-Word thread running in the background. I just kill 'em off at my leisure. They are also gone upon restart.

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Bring up the webpage built into your router.

Start your web browser up and substitute the address of your router in the address field. Ferinstance, some are at

Terminal session (For Linux. For Windows? Don't know.):

whois 74.125.155.109

--Winston

and thisis hat I got by searching an unknown dns address with google . But what does this meaN ?

Sorry, Snag? I didn't see an attachment or a paste.

--Winston

An MS-Word thread doing a network connection or just an orphan process eating cycles?

--Winston

I screwed up , somehow hit send by mistake . The only active DNS 's on my router are all 192.168.1.XXX , which is all inside my intranet. I show the correct number of computers for what I have running as of right now . Funny thing , this comp (my desktop) doesn't show - and I know for sure what DNS number it is because I have it set up for a specific one on the router - as is my print/media server that my son has set up for a ventrilo server . I try to run pretty tight security , with firewalls and bot/adware/antivirus programs , but I still worry ...

The orphan variety. I'm not sure how they become such... And yes, I identify them because they eat cycles (and I have a small CPU speedometer on my desktop so I notice).

Bill

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Good on ya. Sounds like you are doing a proper job of it.

I set up my router's webpage as my 'home' address on my browser. It is amazing who I find cohabiting with me. Seems like I add one or two leeches to my 'hosts' file every day. That file is enormous.

I still wonder how I can eject my friends at 74.125.155.nnn if the 'hosts' entry is ignored.

--Winston

What firewall are you using?

I downloaded and tried Chrome (Google's browser) for two days. I kept finding the computer online and busy when I wasn't sitting at the desk and it scared me. I quickly banished Chrome (and had never allowed the Google Toolbar) from my computer. The same goes for software like Torrent.

-- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -- Sir Winston Churchill

Yeah.

I've watched my system monitor just plugging along with no process occupying more than a few percent of CPU while the fan is running like a jet engine and response time slows to a crawl.

Clearly there is something going on that isn't happening during the OS timeslice... :)

--Winston

Winston wrote in rec.crafts.metalworking on Thu, 05 May 2011 14:32:40 -0700:

It's looking for web pages to catalog and list in its database. Sometimes called webbots or spiders.

--Winston

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