The Windows Task Manager lists the processes that are currently running on the computer system. Security conscious users monitor the processes regularly to make sure that no new or rogue processes are running on their personal computer. Some processes, like firefox.exe or explorer.exe can be identified immediately by their name while others, like taskhost.exe or [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

I just noticed the process conhost.exe for the first time in Windows 7. Not sure if it was never there before or if I did not have the Windows Task Manager open at the time it was running on the operating system. The properties of the conhost.exe process describe it as the Console Windows Host [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

We reviewed a Windows process blocker just a few days ago which can be used to automatically kill processes after they are executed on the computer system. The main issue that we had with the program was the notification system that displayed popups in the Windows System Tray area whenever it blocked a process or [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Windows application Process Blocker has been designed to provide system administrators and computer technicians with a security tool that can be easily distributed on a computer network to prevent unauthorized program starts. The program is currently in beta stage and has not completed the goal yet but it comes with a functional feature set [...]

Categories: Software, Windows