Finding Viruses and Trojans
Most computers are capable of running a large number of programs simultaneously. This is often a very useful feature; but it also makes it easier to create viruses and Trojans that run in the background.
Finding Invisible Processes
Because you probably have a large number of processes already running on your system, finding a Trojan or a virus process can be quite difficult. If you are using Windows 98 or Me, the background processes might not even show up in the task list. WinTasks 5 Professional lists all processes running on your computer, including invisible background processes like Trojans or viruses. Since WinTasks 5 Professional also assigns more user-friendly names to each process, such as Internet Explorer instead of iexplore.exe, as well as the full executable file path, finding and terminating unwanted processes is relatively easy. Using WinTasks 5 Professional, you also get a lot of additional information on processes to help you decide which processes to terminate. For example, you can list all DLLs or windows used by a process. By searching among DLLs, windows, and other objects, you can quickly find and remove any security threats. In the screenshot below, WinTasks 5 Professional shows all DLLs currently loaded by the Outlook application.
WinTasks 5 Professional shows all Dlls currently loaded by the Outlook application.
Permanently Removing Trojans
Using WinTasks 5 Professional it is possible to prevent Trojans processes from loading the next time you reboot. To do this, you simply open the autostart window in WinTasks and select the Trojan executable. By disabling the Trojan from this window, it will be removed from the registry autostart sections and will not be started the next time you reboot your system. You can either temporarily disable the Trojan, to find out whether you have disabled the right program, or you can permanently remove it from the registry. WinTasks 5 Professional also has a number of other features like scripting and CPU usage logs that can be used to detect and remove unwanted processes and to increase overall system security.