Thursday, December 9, 2010

chapter 20 labs

20-2

For this lab, I had to download AVG antivirus software. Before I could install it, it made me delete my Mcafee total protection package. I updated the software definitions. I set the software to scan everyday at midnight. The software was already set to scan all incoming emails. I then scanned my system. there were no problems.






20-3

There were to tasks that ran in safe mode that were not running in normal mode they were ctfmon.exe, and helppane.exe.  Here is the list of the processesses.

taskmgr.exe: provides detailed information about computer performance and running applications, processes and CPU usage, commit charge and memory information, network activity and statistics, logged-in users, and system services.

sidebar.exe: It is part of Windows "gadgets" and is associated with Windows Vista.

taskhost.exe: generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs.

winlogon.exe:  a process belonging to the Windows login manager. It handles the login and logout procedures on your system.

SCServer.exe:part of Microsoft's Search Client Server.It is a required part of the Windows Operating system

Easyshare.exe: This is part of my printer software.

csrss.exe:Csrss stands for Client/Server Run-Time Subsystem, and is an essential subsystem that must be running at all times. Csrss is responsible for console windows, creating and/or deleting threads, and implementing some portions of the 16-bit virtual MS-DOS environment.
 
avgtray.exe: The purpose of this avgtray.exe program is to scan your computer for various viruses and trojans, and it will allow easy access to your virus detector software as it sits in the system tray.

dwm.exe: Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) is the compositing window manager that gives you all those pretty effects in Windows Vista.

jusched.exe:  Java, which is an OS independent application environment.

20-4


The autoruns is detailed and has more registry keys.

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