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Techradar shows you how to spot suspicious processes in Windows 7



Windows 7 is a big operating system with an efficient architecture, but its inner world of processes and services can be a confusing place if you're not used to it. If you don't know what you're looking at, it's easy for malware to masquerade as a legitimate process and for legitimate processes to frighten you so much that you kill them, crash the system and lose data. Then there's the problem of your anti-malware protection or Windows popping up warnings about processes needing your permission to access resources. Will accepting the request infect your machine, or worse? Hierarchy of processes To work out whether a process is benign or malicious, it's useful to understand something about the structure of a running installation of Windows 7.
  Tutorial: How to spot suspicious processes in Windows 7