My system felt a bit sluggish after starting the installation of a new application and a quick check of the task manager revealed a process named mscorsvw.exe that was running on my system using nearly 40% of my CPU. I never heard about that file before and a quick check on the Internet revealed that [...]

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Some of you might have experienced certain spyware, virus or trojan behavior that they spawn another process as soon as the user kills it. This can be caused by several processes that are running on the system that are infected and that scan the system permanently to make sure that all the relevant malicious processes [...]

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I more than once asked myself why I had so many svchost processes running when opening the task manager which displayed no additional information on the process. I needed another software that would help me analyze the svchost processes and determine if they were really needed or even malicious.

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I spotted a huge process in my task manager today called MediaAgent.exe which used roughly 30 Megabytes of RAM. A quick check revealed that the process belonged to a OpenCASE Media Agent which I was not aware to have installed after all. My first fears that it was some sort of trojan, virus or spyware that managed to sneak into my system thankfully did not turn out to be true.

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First of all, Merry Christmas everyone

Config Inspector is a nice little freeware application for windows operating systems that could be described as an advanced task manager. Besides offering more information about loaded applications and processes it also displays vital information about memory and cpu usage, network utilization and general windows information.

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