Netstat command for Established connections

Steven_96

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Hi Please help I'm worried.

I have windows 10 The creator update 1709 I got a call from tech support today that said My computer was comramised. That I had all these active connections if I go into the command prompt and typew in netstat and there are a lot of them. My question is how do I go about removing them and keeping them gone so that they do not come back the are all Foreign addresses. I have tried this command taskkill /f /pid and then the pid number but a lot of them are saying that acsess is denied. Is there a registry command or something that will block ports on my computer that I do not need. so that it will wipe out all of these active connections? I did not let Tech support acsess my computer in any way.

Thank you so much!!
 
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USAFRet

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Your PC is NOT compromised.
That was a 100% scam phone call.

They have you do things like that, because all those "connections" look really, really bad.
In reality, that is they way PC's work.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with your system.
They wanted to extract money from you, and possibly inset a trojan on your system.

That was a scam phone call.
"Tech support" will never call YOU.
 

Steven_96

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USAFRet

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In this context, "Foreign" does NOT mean a foreign country. It means anything outside the physical PC.

For instance, if I run netstat, I see "foreign" connections to my NAS box. That lives over on the other side of the room.

Again...there is absolutely nothing wrong with your PC.
Mess with that taskill or other things, and you might break the OS.
 
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Steven_96

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Okay Great. I only have the one custom Built Computer running windows 10 Creator update. 1709. So I guess that I will choose this as the best solution and Call this issue closed.

Thank you!!

Sorry for the mini argument that I was giving you!!