Bob wrote:
> For example, my hard drive is quiet, Task Manager is open so I can
> monitor CPU usage, I start Windows Mail to read an email I already
> received. I am just reading an email and scroll down a little and hard
> drive is working intensely. I immediately check the CPU usage
> percentage column of task manager has "Percentage of time the processor
> is idle" at 96%.
>
Sysinternal's Process Explorer allows one to look at the processes
running and what is using the processes. It's free.
> I was thinking it was indexing and I was going to post a question on how
> to make it lower priority. But the CPU usage percentage column shows
> indexing as rarely registering any CPU usage.
>
> I know it is not malware because along with avast free anti virus &
> malware for real time protection. I have about seven other malware
> scanners installed for manual scan only usage and run each at least once
> a week. I use safe internet habits and openDNS for protection so I do
> not go to web sites known for malware.
Malware can fool all of it, hide itself and piggy back off a legitimate
running process.
Hey go look around for yourself and not solely depend upon protection
software.
Systinternal has some other tools to help you look at what is running on
the computer.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...s/default.aspx
Who is to say that you don't have rootkit running on the machine?
Hey, you might not have anything, it all may be legit, but at least
you'll learn how to look around and check for yourself.
The link below talks about the tools like Process Explorer and others.
With PE, right-click a line in the upper pane and go to properties of
the running process to get more information. You can do the same on a
line in the lower pane.
You can use CurrPort instead of Active Ports that doesn't run on Vista
the last time I looked.
<http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Hidden_Backdoors_Trojan_Horses_and_Rootkit_Tools_i n_a_Windows_Environment.html>
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