Looking for a tool to sort out rogue processes

Pooh, the face that he said Microsoft services and that it's an adware/spyware issue would have suggested it's a Windows device. AFAIK, there is no wide-spread *nix adware (yet!)

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I am almost positive you can do this with Hijackthis and ctrl alt delete tells most but yah that there should work for ya.

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No. HiJackThis merely shows what's in the registry. CTRL+ALT+DEL might get you the TaskManager but often many processes are hidden from it's view. ProcessExplorer shows EVERYTHING. I've yet to see anything hide from it.

I think I understand the comments about Hijack This. I am running v.1.98.0 and there is an option "add checked to ignore list". This would prevent them being reported in future Somewhat similar to Winsonar.

Another product worth a look is Sentinel (at RuntimeWare.com), which is an integrity checker, application watcher and registry watcher.

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