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JoTo:
Thanks for pointing that out.

I always searched for such a tool. I'll give it a try and see what it can dig out for me :) If it at least fiddles out 50% of all these svchost processes for me and tell me whats under the hood, i'd consider it a very useful tool.

Greetings
JoTo

techidave:
Thank you Target for letting us know about the Svchost Process Analyzer.  I just ran it on my Win 7 machine and out of 14 processes it found 1 in the System32 folder that didn't have any file info with it.

Hmmm, now if I only knew what put it there?  :-\

Ath:
Hm, don't know how useful or effective it is, it's complaining that over half of the running processes, with dll's from the system32 directory, it can't find the file? Weird, as it claims compatibility with x64 Windows. And the advice is to 'Check with Security Task Manager' a product to be bought from that same site; sounds like one of those "helpful free security tools" that are designed to trick you into buying something you don't need :-\

JoTo:
For me, on WinXP-32, after a first and quick test, it worked fine. Found all processes and showed me all dlls under the hood. *Shrug* Cannot speak for Win7-x64 right now...that test comes next. :)

For me, at least, i'll keep this tool in my collection. And i only see the advertisement for Taskmanager when i click on the link in the bottom left corner of the main window. Not very intrusive IMO.

Greetings
JoTo

cyberdiva:
And the advice is to 'Check with Security Task Manager' a product to be bought from that same site; sounds like one of those "helpful free security tools" that are designed to trick you into buying something you don't need :-\
-Ath (December 21, 2011, 06:14 AM)
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I was about to post a similar thought.  I downloaded and ran Svchost Process Analyzer on my Win7 64-bit desktop.  It issued 89 warnings, and found all kinds of supposedly atypical things that should be checked with Security Task Manager.  Yeah, right.  I totally agree with Ath, and I've now deleted Security Task Manager Shill, aka Svchost Process Analyzer.  :down:

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