Process Library
has a search bar to enter the name of a specific process or
application you are interested in but, as a matter of interest,
lists the current 5 most popular, new, and dangerous for the
day. We will look at items from these three groups in turn.
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This is the svchost.exe process definition chosen from the Top 5 Processes.
It can be a genuine and essential Windows process or a harmful Trojan, and is now up to the user to determine which is running on his or her PC. WinTasks 5 is an excellent program that offers more than just process verification. But, as we have seen, we can use the Process list from Spybot's Tools menu to determine this. The definition we will get in Spybot is not generic but specific to the process running on that PC. |
Note the subtle
change in the process name that has been hijacked here, scv- instead of
svc-, enough to escape the notice of all but the keen eyed or paranoid.
But since there is no genuine process of that name, it can obviously be
safely removed.
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New
applications or processes may appear after the installation of software
and not be as immediately obvious as this one. You can check these
through Process Library's comprehensive database.
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Uniblue, who
maintain the Process Library, have released a tiny plugin that modifies
the Windows Task Manager. It is available from the link shown on the
top image in this page.
With Quick Access installed, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del brings up a modified dialog box with information icons against all running processes. Left clicking on the icon will open the browser at the definition for that process in the Process Library site. |