Process Explorer

[sophilos]

Interesting program. Thanks for the link. Always love new apps that help secure computers.

I am wondering though if your computer is running near 100% all the time its likely there is some spyware lurking about. Did you ever find a culprit for maxing out your CPU?

Good morning, Kurchatovium.

ACPI has a long history of potent glitches and half-assed fixes. I'm thinking maybe BIOS update.

I guess, though, the thrust of your question is to track whatever it is that is driving ACPI crazy.

I am just a little bit too far behind in my List of Things to Do to take ACPI apart right now. More, what normal function of ACPI, no matter the inputs, should drive the processor to a minimum of five times normal speed? The browser was forced to stop and wait, locked up solid.

ACPI and the drivers of all those devices that use power (including all of those board-mounted System devices) form a webwork of power apportionment measures. I could have a bad device driver. It just occurred to me that I just might have a faulty patch of microcode in my CPU.

The thread is suspended. I have cycled power several times since I took that measure and the problem remains in abeyance.

Doing the RoI math prompts me to go back to studying Cryptolocker and its malevolent kinder/gruppen. Who needs Lumosity?

 

[kurchatovium]

There is a place called Wilders Security Forum. They have tons of experts that maybe already have an answer as to what maybe driving ACPI crazy. They forum link is www.wilderssecurity.com. Its a free forum.

The problem is these days is malware that often infects a computer will download even more malware. So sorting through these things can be complicated.

 

[sophilos]

Partly delighted, partly dismayed, I now see that I have twice as much to learn.

Okay.

 

[kurchatovium]

Partly delighted, partly dismayed, I now see that I have twice as much to learn.

Okay.

Yea security is a complicated game these days. I once got one virus and in a few minutes I had over 180 infectious little beasties of malware. Luckily my security suite found them all.

Thats why I love Wilders. Once a website infected my computer and a expert wanted to know the link to infect his computer to see if he could remove the infection LOL Thats an expert.

 

[sophilos]

"... or to take up arms against a sea of troubles ..."

If there's anything encouraging about hunting malware, it's that there are only so many Windows components, only so many avenues of attack.

Windows backs up the Registry based on events. Windows will even, like a bachelor uncle, keep snapshots of your data. You can identify legitimate dll's and sort out the bad ones, and the whole structure of the thing will be knit together with Registry keys.

It gets trickier. I'm sure you know about Cryptolocker. The war has begun. Combatants will be selected based on a synthesis of their vulnerability and their cash reserves.

But then there's Cryptolocker 2.0. Can you set up a common screen-stealer? Can you create a blind-payment drop? Then you, too, can take in big money on the Internet! This is not a multi-level marketing scheme!

It's simple blackmail. Uh, relatively simple.

And, if I can learn to turn a buck under a white hat, each of those is one I won't have to repay sevenfold.

The more I look at Wilders, the more I see an Enterprise-level resource. I know, everything is a PC and the Beowulf cluster killed the mainframe -- unless you have an NSA in your backyard and 29 petabytes a day coming in to feed it.

But witchy things start happening when you begin building WANs and operating mission-critical platforms. I only go there to rubberneck.

 

[kurchatovium]

True. 🙂 There are a variety of approaches to security as well. I have heard of something called Sandbox. It basically allows only certain programs "to play on the internet". The rest of your computer is locked up and protected. I have never used the thing myself but it is an interesting concept.

 

[sophilos]

It's all about the applications.

Sandboxing is nothing new. What's new is the CPU "power" to support Virtual Machine technology on the desktop. Even so, it's enough of a resource hog that you don't want to deal with it for the sole purpose of enhancing your Internet security.

Some PC users, for business reasons, must run Windows applications, if not the OS itself, under Linux or Unix. Some organizations have years owing to amortize a unique app that won't run under succeeding versions of WinServer blankety-blank. Other X platform users just want to play the latest Win-based games.

Wilders pushes its own virtual machine solution and a wide range of Enterprise-level applications. Bleeping Computer recommends and supports desktop-level applications from a range of individual programmers, across the board of usage. Even here at the TMF, Jeff is a producer Emeritus who still sells some of his stuff, but he does so frankly and honestly. And the stuff is still that good.

Maybe it's just me finally catching up to the obvious. Does every site I play with at night also work days as a marketing engine?

Thinking it through, there's nothing wrong with honest marketing. There's nothing wrong with marriage, either. Right?

 

[kurchatovium]

Sandboxing is nothing new. What's new is the CPU "power" to support Virtual Machine technology on the desktop. Even so, it's enough of a resource hog that you don't want to deal with it for the sole purpose of enhancing your Internet security.

Some PC users, for business reasons, must run Windows applications, if not the OS itself, under Linux or Unix. Some organizations have years owing to amortize a unique app that won't run under succeeding versions of WinServer blankety-blank. Other X platform users just want to play the latest Win-based games.

Wilders pushes its own virtual machine solution and a wide range of Enterprise-level applications. Bleeping Computer recommends and supports desktop-level applications from a range of individual programmers, across the board of usage. Even here at the TMF, Jeff is a producer Emeritus who still sells some of his stuff, but he does so frankly and honestly. And the stuff is still that good.

Maybe it's just me finally catching up to the obvious. Does every site I play with at night also work days as a marketing engine?

Thinking it through, there's nothing wrong with honest marketing. There's nothing wrong with marriage, either. Right?

You raise an interesting point. One of the easiest security solutions is to use Linux or even Mac OS. Not nearly as much malware for those. Or do what a friend I know does he uses Windows 98 LOL The malware pretty much wont run on his system 😛 Sort of security in reverse. LOL

Dont ask me I am single 😛