Dangerous Running Processes

[courtneymitchell]

My computer processing speed is very slow.  I am concerned about the long list of processes that appear to be running on my computer according to task manager.  I would post the list, however, I am not given the copy command when I right click on the files.  I would greatly appreciate any help in researching dangerous files that may be on my computer.

Thank you!
Courtney

[vibhor_agarwalin]

How about scanning for virsuses and spywares.

This might decrease the list by a quarter.

[Fed]

You can download & run Procexp from http://www.sysinternals.com and Google directly from within the program to get an idea what's going on.

[courtneymitchell]

Thanks, I download the program, however, being the computer illiterate that I am, I am not sure about which files are not necessary to be running or potentially dangerous.

I have four svchost.exe files, two listed as Generic Host Processes.
I have three iexpore.exe files, even though I only have one ie browser open.  

Here are some other unknown files running:

alg.exe
wdfmgr.exe
tponscr.exe
tphkmgr.exe
procexp.exe

[Fed]

Try Ewido http://www.ewido.net/en/but if you want to go the full 9 yards....

Download, install & update...
CWShredder
Ad-Aware
Spybot S&D
AVG Free (Set options to 'scan all files')

Turn off System Restore if applicable. (ME & XP users)

Run Disk Clean-Up (Windows)
Run CWShredder
Run Ad-Aware
Run Spybot
Run AVG Free

Re-start in Safe Mode
Re-run AVG Free

For the full text of the above guidelines
http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php?4,27725,backpage=