It’s quite often that when our computer became slow after a few months, one of the famous reason why it happened is there were malicious programs running in our computer. Without practicing the proper way of using the internet and getting protection from anti-virus and anti-spyware software, our computer will easily get infected by such kind of threats.
What is going to be shared today is not the best anti-spyware/antivirus out there, but how you are able to learn more about the processes running in the background of your Windows Operating System.
How to identify the processes running in your Windows
To see the list of those processes, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete combination and then click on the “Processes Tab”. If you can’t open the Windows Task Manager, use this solution. You will get a list of processes running just like in the screenshot below:
How can I determine whether certain processes are dangerous or not?
Here’s the interesting part. Go to Processlibrary.com and enter the name of the process into the search form. Then, click FIND. The result I got after entering wuaclt.exe as the search term was:
Safe. That is simply how this method work, to identify which one is safe for your computer. Now, you might want to see the example of bad process. let’s try with a006.exe. Result:
Hence, from the result it is recommend for you to delete the process by removing program related from your computer.
What if I was blocked from deleting the process/ application?
Use a tool called Process Viewer . This software enable you to discover what DLL’s your process really uses and where they are located, but the real matter is can forcedly kill the process for you.
Once you kill the process, the next thing to do is remove the related application to the harmful process. Tips source: Thanks Emptyspace
September 10th, 2007 at 6:09 am
“Registry has been disabled by the Administrator.” How do i enable the registry, i get this error message whenever i try to uninstall some of the programs i don’t need.
September 10th, 2007 at 6:18 am
You can refer to this post: Enable Regedit back When it is Disabled
Hope that helps.
September 10th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
really good infi fuad! thanks!
September 12th, 2007 at 1:21 am
nice explanation fuad. thanks for the pointers to processlibrary.com - you can also type the name of the process in google. normally the search result will return quite a good answer.
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September 14th, 2007 at 4:53 am
TechMalaya: Thanks for the additional tip. It’s emptyspace who discovered the tip featured in this post first so credit goes to him.
Frank: Thanks for the appreciation of my work.
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September 15th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Ok. I’ll take a look and fix any bug when I am back home (tomorrow). I’m currently out of the town right now.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:06 am
That’s exactly what I needed.
My computer has somehow become so slow.
And My antivirus was always scanning for outgoing mails.
I will try this when I get home.
September 20th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Thanks for the link, it will come in handy. I always try to remember which processes are safe for me so I can disable the unknown and new ones.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
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September 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 am
This post has been very useful and enlightening. The comments on the post have further enabled me. Thank you for posting this very useful information.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Very cool
Thank you for posting this very useful information.
October 11th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
yo fuad.. is this ur blog?
http://kothura.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/detect-harmful-processes-running-in-your-computer/
October 31st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
excellent! Thanks again!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:35 pm
coooolll that is very useful information for us thank you
November 21st, 2007 at 5:23 am
Nice tips, I benefit from many tips in your site.
This site, processlibrary.com, is the great one that help me solve some computer problems. Thank your information….
December 12th, 2007 at 1:28 am
That’s really tricky program. I have to try it on my devil’s machineJ I think most of the programmers should try to reduce malicious software instead of trying to improve it. As far as I understood that program can detect harmful processes on my computer but can I use it to detect worms or Trojan horses and stuff like that? Thanks!!!