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How do I find out what my computer is doing?

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  • fredfro
    fredfro Posts: 37 Forumite
    Don't get too hung up on the number of processes. I would rather have 500 processes using 1KB of RAM each than 1 process using 500MB of RAM.

    Darksun is correct, a number of processes which could cause disk usage run in idle such as the indexing service.
  • enigma52
    enigma52 Posts: 642 Forumite
    seeing as mbam found a problem I would now do a FULL scan with it and see what it finds, post log and we'll see if anything else needs to be done
  • dogmaryxx
    dogmaryxx Posts: 2,446 Forumite
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    Download ProcessScanner then individually check each process in report by clicking on it to see whether required or not.
    .
  • bcl999
    bcl999 Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    erb wrote: »
    No XP Professional.

    I've recently had the same problem with my laptp also running XP Pro. I did a search and found a thread about one of the updates which was causing "blue screen of death" on some machines after it was installed so i removed that even though it wasn't happening on mine. It never helped anyway.
  • erb
    erb Posts: 547 Forumite
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    I have checked the process that are running when I start up and the only one I am not sure about is explorer.exe. This is using about 39168k of my memory at the moment.

    A google search has revealed:

    The explorer.exe is a process; however, it is also a Trojan. cexx.org has an excellent removal process at this link: http://www.cexx.org/dlder.htm

    We've found multiple infections in a few machines over the years. It's known as the dlder.exe Trojan and it drops another "explorer.exe" file in a separate folder, normally in 'C:\Windows\explorer\Explorer.exe'.

    Please note that you have a legitimate original "explorer.exe" in 'C:\Windows\explorer.exe'

    It also drops a startup file in your registry so it will run silently at startup...normally in your Local Machine Registry: [HKLM\SOFTWARE\games\Clicktilluwin]

    I now need to find out if I have the legitimate process or the Trojan. There is only one process showing by this name.

    I have run Microsoft Security Essentials and also the Malwarebytes and they have not reported this as a problem.

    Is there any other way of finding out for definate?
    Regards
    erb :)
  • Darksun
    Darksun Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    If there's only one process by that name, it'll be the legitimate one. explorer.exe is a core component of Windows, it will not function correctly if it's not running
  • erb
    erb Posts: 547 Forumite
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    dogmaryxx wrote: »
    Download ProcessScanner then individually check each process in report by clicking on it to see whether required or not.
    .

    Tried this but it would not run. Just got an error message.
    Regards
    erb :)
  • erb
    erb Posts: 547 Forumite
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    enigma52 wrote: »
    seeing as mbam found a problem I would now do a FULL scan with it and see what it finds, post log and we'll see if anything else needs to be done

    Ran a full scan last night. It took 3 hours :eek: and after that reported that there were no problems.
    Regards
    erb :)
  • ddoris
    ddoris Posts: 392 Forumite
    How full is your h/drive??
  • erb
    erb Posts: 547 Forumite
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    ddoris wrote: »
    How full is your h/drive??

    190GB free of a total of 226GB on C drive.
    Regards
    erb :)
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