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I have a couple spyware bots I loaded on a test machine. While I was
watching the spyware infect the system I noticed that it was launching
a process but it was not listed in my task Managaer under processes. I
know the process is running because the firewall is detecting it. Does
anyone have code to list these invisble processes?

-Peter

Nov 21 '05 #1
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I have a couple spyware bots I loaded on a test machine. While I was
watching the spyware infect the system I noticed that it was launching
a process but it was not listed in my task Managaer under processes. I
know the process is running because the firewall is detecting it. Does
anyone have code to list these invisble processes?

-Peter


Hi Peter,

look here http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorerNt.zip
for process or system debugging. It`s a great tool.

Greeting

Thomas Wenning
Nov 21 '05 #2
Hi,

You can use the process class to list all running processes.
The problem with spyware is it likes to use the same name as system
processes. Here is a link to an example that gets the processes and owners.
This will help you figure out which one is spyware.

http://www.windowsformsdatagridhelp....8-a07917f8c3e4

Ken
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I have a couple spyware bots I loaded on a test machine. While I was
watching the spyware infect the system I noticed that it was launching
a process but it was not listed in my task Managaer under processes. I
know the process is running because the firewall is detecting it. Does
anyone have code to list these invisble processes?

-Peter

Nov 21 '05 #3

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