Monthly Archives: October 2010
Spigot “applicationupdater.exe”
A few days ago, I’ve noticed a new process applicationupdater.exe in the Task Manager processes list, but I did not pay too much attention to it, until today when I decided to discover what application is responsible for it. I mean, it’s normal for almost any application to connect to the web and update itself but respecting a few basic rules : the user must be asked previously for his consent to update a program an updater it’s not running for long, it runs at certain intervals, check the official site for updates and immediatelyit’s closing an application updater inform the user about what updates it’s looking for, for what …
Process Hacker
Process Hacker deserves the label of “Software of the week” because it’s the most advanced and powerfull tool I ever tested for manipulating or managing computer processes. Here are included applications processes, running services, hidden processes, all revealed highly detailed. For example for a given process, the tool will display to the user the handles, modules loaded, threads, the services associated with it if any, the memory map, the token, the DEP (Data Execution Prevention) status, the permissions and pretty much everything, all easily accesible via context menu. The analysis can be deeper, you can even view the stack of a process thread. The Services tab include a complete list …
Privatefirewall 7.0
With its computer security approach, behavioral based and signature-less, Privatefirewall 7.0, a Privacyware product is the perfect complement to any antivirus software you may running. Beeing a firewall though advanced, it can not remove malware, otherwise it would be the perfect defense solution for a Windows based system. The program monitor the whole system activity and alert user about any presumably malicious modification or anomaly detected to the applications, protected registry area, protected objects, emails, Windows services, running processes, DNS requests or outgoing TCP traffic blocking any known or unknown malware. Privatefirewall 7.0 is able to intercepts the calls of WinAPI functions, initialization of new unknown processes, attempts to access …
Secure Windows XP tools, “uncoventional way”
You can easily categorize this article as an “unconventional” way to deal with malware affected computers, in order to restore their full functionality. Everybody can see all over the Internet the computer’s security related sites recommandations in the case of a virus infection : Download and install this or that antimalware or antivirus, run a deep scan of the system, job done ! This phrase in his concentrated meaning, is already a pattern of almost all of the recommandations, but in my opinion contains useless, “empty” words in most of the cases. Nowdays with the actual threats, more than ever a “set and forget” security software solution is not enough …