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Tracking Down the Culprit PandoraService.exe

Tracking Down the Culprit PandoraService.exe Sometimes when you monitor the net usage you might have come across some weird net usage.You might have said "How the hell did such bandwidth consumption occur ?" Yes sometimes it happens. Today I am going to show you how you can encounter such problems and bring out solutions for such problems. Here is a simple scenario that I am going to explain and demonstrate.This cannot be categorized as a tutorial but rather a method how you can find out more about services that consumes extensive bandwidth..I guess if  you read this you can also take down such culprits too in  a similar way.So here we go  I was playing around with Wireshark for a while,analyzing the packets in network.All of a sudden I noticed something weird in the traffic of the network.I found that lots of TCP-SYN packets are being sent from my local ip to a remote ip having an address 111.111.111.111. I checked the inboud and outbound connections  I