process monitoring

A critical local privilege‑escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint (versions 14.00 and prior) that allows an attacker with local access to escalate to SYSTEM by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior — the issue is tracked as CVE‑2025‑7973 and has been...

A high-severity privilege-escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint that allows a local attacker to escalate to SYSTEM privileges by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior; the issue (CVE-2025-7973) carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5 and affects FactoryTalk...

Microsoft has released the latest security baseline for Windows Server 2025, version 2506, on June 25, 2025. This update introduces several key changes aimed at enhancing security and operational flexibility for enterprise environments. Key Changes in Version 2506 Deny Logon Through Remote...

The intersection of manufacturing and data analysis has never been more critical than it is today, with companies spanning pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and other high-tech industries relying on advanced digital platforms to drive efficiency and spark innovation. One of the software solutions...

Windows Sysinternals is a suite of advanced utilities developed by Microsoft to assist users in managing, diagnosing, and troubleshooting Windows systems. While these tools are often associated with IT professionals and developers, many of them offer functionalities that can significantly...

Microsoft’s recent announcement on enhanced observability for enterprise automation marks a significant evolution in Power Automate’s capabilities. With a focus on providing deeper insights, streamlined troubleshooting, and proactive recommendations, Microsoft has introduced a suite of features...

Windows Task Manager has been the go-to utility for monitoring system processes and performance for decades. But let’s face it—while it does a decent job, it’s not exactly the Swiss Army knife of system monitoring tools. It’s functional, sure, but power users and tech enthusiasts often crave...

When I call in Win7 the Ressource Monitor then a lot of values are fluctuating. The mount of bytes written to disk from process AAA for example is even sometimes automatically decreasing! So I guess there ist a time interval for the values and the values are automatically reset by windows...

I don't really know how to describe it but svchost is making hundreds of 100mb files with weird names (see screenshot) Until there's no space left in my hard disk! I formatted disk f to see what happens and I saw 50+MBPS write speed on front of svchost.exe(IN TASK MANAGER) and within hour disk f...

Hi, Currently we are facing an issue in NetBackup server(Windows8) . We found that there is a huge load on that server. Can we find out which process is using more utilization on netbackup server (Windows8). Please help me if you have the steps or commands for finding the process. Thanks

Hi everyone, I keep hearing a tone sound from somewhere in the background of my Windows-7 that makes me think something suspicious or even harmful may be working. I have disabled all of the sound tones associates with any Windows event except "Close Program" and "Open Program". The only tone...

Here's a neat script I put together today. If added as a scheduled task it will loop and monitor running processes. The only thing needed is to sign up for an account on virustotal.com to get an API key then replace the F's with your api key Function Get-ProcessReport([string]$FilePath...

The object is to create a unique Event Viewer ID that appears when a specific background process starts - Windows 10 Calculator, for example. When calculator is in use, it is listed only in the Task Manager APPS area. However, when it's not running it randomly appears only as a background...

Anyone know of a program that can log when a particular process starts, finishes, what parameters are passed, cpu usage, etc. Process Explorer gives me that info but I have to be watching it to see the process in question. I have a rundll process that runs sometime in the morning that is using...

I'm still having problems with minimising of games, windows & full screen movies to small boxed windows at random. I know when this happens my mouse cursor has a loading circle so something in the background is causing this for sure but I have no idea what/ I have no spyware or adware as...

Dear all, Our vfp application (vfp 9) is getting stucked in WIndows 7. I ran Process Monitoring utility and following is the result I found in the log file. Log Name: ApplicationSource: Windows Error ReportingDate: 3/10/2012 10:14:34 AM Event ID: 1001Task Category: None Level: Information...

W7 Ultimate build 7600 The task manager doesn't display any values of processes. If I want to chech which process how much of RAM uses I can't do it because there are no values. See the screenshot below in order to understand what I mean. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I tried even...