Really useful tool for hunting down suspicious tasks in Windows
Very comprehensive list! At the least it’s great for ID’ing spyware, virii and worms on infested machines.
In fact, this site is a bit better. e.g. svchost on tasklist.org has about 8 entries. Most of which indicated that the svchost.exe is spyware or worm added and NOT the microsoft file that it is. On processlibrary.com (and any number of other sites) it indiacates that it is a microsoft service host process and that it MAY be used by a few viruses, but that it is low risk.
Another way is to download Process Explorer.
These are good tools that would be helpful for finding what processes are running adware/spyware/malware. It would follow along with an article on removing spyware. The article is a good rule of thumb to follow when you are removing malisious software.
Now I dont have to freakout whenever I see a process I dont know. I think a simple google search is better for hunting down processes. You get more sites likes this, some better, some worse, to choose from and base a decision on. You can also flip the search over to Google Groups/Usenet to see if there are any discussions for the REAL suspicious ones.