Whats this about then?

[Hamster]

Right, just got me cable, seems to be getting a bit slow, so I ran start > command > netstat on it, and as well as ntl / telewest I seem to be connected to summat called discountasp.net, uk2.net and about eight other things?

Is this legit nad perfectly normal or have I picked up pile of trojans or similar?

No laughing at the noob btw, I'm crap with net stuff and I already know it.

: paranoia :

[blurr]

I have 6 connections with uk2net and 1 other I wouldn't worry about it... having said that I do have

TCP richard:1149 213.221.189.4:6667 ESTABLISHED

which I have no idea what that is...

[moron]

I'd guess the UK2 ones are this forum as thats where its hosted... And that 6667 one is IRC.. Looks like barrysworlds server.
And no, generally normal to have a load of connections running.. though if you're really concerned then paste the netstat and we'll try and decipher it :)

[Hamster]

Cheers Blurr, I'm clueless about intarweb stuff..:p

[blurr]

ahh the 6667 will be irc i'm guessing :)

oops hadn't fully read what you said moron

[burundi]

If in doubt close all your proggies that use t'internet and then give it 2 minutes and run netstat

if you still have loads of active connections download AdAware 6 from www.lavasoft.com and see if you do have any spyware on your pc.

You can also download the stinger utility from Mcafee to check for and remove specific trojans and viruses: http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

[Hamster]

Cheers all, I always get paranoid about stuff I don't quite understand.."omG! HaX0rs!!" etc.

I already run Adaware, Spybot and AVG over it regular and they aint flagged anything up recently so probably fine.

[burundi]

Stinger is a useful utility to run every now and then as well. it checks and removes the most common trojans worms and viruses. The free version of AVG is allegedly not brilliant but better than nothing!

[Matt]

if you do "netstat -ano" it will give you useful information, including which pid is associated with which connection. You can then find out which app is using that connection (pid is process ID, each application has its own pid).