If you are using Windows Firewall, you may find Windows Firewall Notifier useful as it displays connection attempts to you giving you the chance to evaluate them and either block or allow the connection afterwards. An alternative would be to configure your firewall to block outgoing connections for selected processes. You can use NetBalancer free for that too, but the free version is limited to three processes only. This can sometimes render the program useless, so keep that in mind. You can naturally also try and block all outgoing traffic of the program.

Maybe there is an alternative available that is not connecting to servers when its run. Alternatives to NetBalancer SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager 4.7 Trial version Control the traffic of your local network Cisco Network Magic 3.4 Trial version Easy to use Network Administrator for Cisco Internet Radio 3. The first option is to uninstall the program from the system. If you have identified a process using one of the tools that established connections even though it should not have done so, you have a couple of options to resolve the issue. Here you see all remote IP addresses and protocols it has established connections to. You can click on any process listed here to have its current connections displayed at the bottom right. It is a good idea to run the program in the background for some time to get a good reading on all programs you use on a daily basis. If you see data listed in the downloaded or uploaded fields you know that the process has made connections.

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