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Monitor program activity

Personal Firewall reports on incoming and outgoing program activity, which you can view to see remote PC connections and ports. This is an important resource when you want to determine which programs on your PC are connecting to the Internet, what types of connections they are establishing, and which ports they are using.

Task
1 Open Traffic Monitor.
2 Pull down the menu at the top of the page, and select Active Programs.
3 You can view the following information:
To see this... Do this...
Program activity graph Select a program to display a graph of its activity.
Listening connection Select a listening item under the program name.
Listening connections are used by web servers running locally on your PC to accept Internet connections.
Computer connection Select an IP address under the program name, system process, or service.
To see the most up-to-date statistics, click Refresh.