Christof,

Got it! It was an 'Apple Mobile Device' something that was installed by my brother. I uninstalled that and voila, it was goners!

Thanks!

Another followup question though, once I see a certain port (TCP or UDP) that is connected and want it disconnected, is there a command line utility that will do such?

Dennis


>Hi,
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>> But, what do u think could have such a loop to itself? Kinda weird right?
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>Less weird than it seems at first. If you have a service like a virus scanner, backup engine, SQL server, etc. these services use a different user account than the logged on user. Therefore they cannot have any user interface. Many of these tools also have a second smaller EXE that runs in the system tray. Both need to communicate which frequently happens through socket connections on the local system. With
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>NETSTAT -a -b
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>You also get the name of the process that has access to the socket. That should make it easier to validate what is going on.