Process monitors to check for spyware infections.
What are process monitors ?
These are small utility softwares that lists all the processes that are running on your system. There are various sophisticated monitors which show a whole lot of information, besides just the list of running processes.
How it can help you ?
If you suspect a spyware infection and have a basic understanding of the expected processes on your computer, a process monitor can help you identify any rogue process, spyware process executing on your computer.
Available process monitors ?
You already have a process monitor on your computer, just press Ctrl+Alt+Del and Windows Task Manager will show up. It comes installed with windows and is a vital part of the operating system.
you can see all the running processes on your computer and the associated memory usages and other statistics.
If you see a process that you do not recognize, just google it up.
Sites such as
are good places to find information about any exe file or dll files running on your computer. If the sites list any process as suspicious or rogue you can safely assume that it is.
If your machine is infected with a rootkit that hides processes, this would be useless since you cant see any rogue processes.
2. A-squared HiJackFree process monitor
This one is a very well featured process monitor that offers lots of functions. There is a free and a pro version, but for most of us the free version would suffice. You can download it from http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/ . This software comes with various language packs.
a. German
b. Spanish
c. Italian
d. Japanese, to name a few
The pro version is only US $19.75 per year. I have not used the pro version so am not going to comment on it.
Here is what the free version looks like
As you can see it is quite well featured and offers a lots of options. What each options does will form a whole new series of blog posts. Just download it and take it for a test run, you will be satisfied.
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