DLSS Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 a lot of weird processes i hadn't noticed b4 ...:,( ok since today i'm noticing a lot of strange things in my taskmanager , .... could anyone inform me bout em or tell me wot they do/were they come from ? http://www.clan1.mod-servers.net/images/oi-.png and why is it running multiple svchosts ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Did you try google? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 it's normal to be running multiple SVCHOSTs even on a default install, try Google for the other processes though, you can usually get a very good idea of what they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudobreed Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Going to take a stab at this: PDVDServ is Power DVD I think wscntfy Is Windows Security tray icon telling you something is off alg.exe Is the application layer gateway, used for ics. UMX Im not sure, but wasnt that one of the exe encrypters mentioned before? svchost is common and it handles most of windows networking I actually had vnc running with the name svchost one time thinking it would make it easier to hide the application to anyone who checked the task manager. In actuallity, it made it harder to end the vnc process tree. It's much easier to just hide the application from showing up in the list. I see you are running xp 64. How do you like it? I had it going for a while until I noticed the overall performance drop. It's like Microsoft just layered 64bit functionality over a 32bit OS. And having two Program Files directories drove me nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 UMX Im not sure, but wasnt that one of the exe encrypters mentioned before? Wasn't that UPX? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudobreed Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Bah, I google'd it and it's from Tiny Firewall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 I smell malware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLSS Posted September 30, 2006 Author Share Posted September 30, 2006 Going to take a stab at this:PDVDServ is Power DVD I think wscntfy Is Windows Security tray icon telling you something is off alg.exe Is the application layer gateway, used for ics. UMX Im not sure, but wasnt that one of the exe encrypters mentioned before? svchost is common and it handles most of windows networking I actually had vnc running with the name svchost one time thinking it would make it easier to hide the application to anyone who checked the task manager. In actuallity, it made it harder to end the vnc process tree. It's much easier to just hide the application from showing up in the list. I see you are running xp 64. How do you like it? I had it going for a while until I noticed the overall performance drop. It's like Microsoft just layered 64bit functionality over a 32bit OS. And having two Program Files directories drove me nuts. Bah, I google'd it and it's from Tiny Firewall thnx , the 64x is running quiet nicely (im running it to b able to fully use my 64x system (for example with video encoding or in games (steam wont let u install 64x versions of games on a system with a 32x OS) ) and am running tiny as its one of the 2 or 3 only firewalls that will run and are compatible with the 64x windows also it wont accept 32 bit drivers wich comes down to things that dont have 64x drivers available wont work. in my case webcam , printer/scanner AIO , ... wich sucks ... (lexmark is 2 lazy to bring out 64x drivers and dont intend to till vist :,( ) as far as i kno tiny didnt used to run tht much processes tho ... might b after last update ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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