Comodo Cleaning Essentials

• Introduction To Comodo Cleaning Essentials
  • System Requirements
  • Downloading Comodo Cleaning Essentials
  • Starting Comodo Cleaning Essentials
  • The Main Interface
• Scanning Your System
  • Smart Scan
  • Full Scan
  • Custom Scan
  • Comparison Of Scan Types
• Configuring Comodo Cleaning Essentials
• The Tools Menu
  • Managing Quarantined Items
  • Managing Trusted Vendors
  • Importing Antivirus Database
  • Checking For Software Updates
• Introduction To KillSwitch
  • Starting KillSwitch
    • From The Comodo Cleaning Essentials Interface
    • From The Folder Containing Comodo Cleaning Essentials Files
    • Replacing Windows Task Manager With KillSwitch
  • The Main Interface
    • The System Tray Icon
  • Viewing And Handling Processes, Applications And Services
    • Processes
      • Stopping, Starting And Handling The Processes
      • Viewing Properties Of A Process
    • Applications
      • Handling The Applications
    • Services
      • Stopping, Starting And Deleting The Services
      • Viewing The Properties Of A Service
  • Viewing And Handling Network Connections And Usage
    • Network Connections
      • Inspecting And Closing Network Connections
    • Network Utilization
  • Configuring KillSwitch
  • KillSwitch Tools
    • Viewing System Information
    • Repairing Windows Settings And Features
    • Analyzing Program Usage
    • Searching For Handles Or DLLs
    • Verifying Authenticity Of Applications
    • Boot Logging And Handling Loaded Modules
    • Running Programs From Command Line Interface
    • Viewing KillSwitch Logs
    • Finding Process Of The Active Window
  • Managing Currently Logged-in Users
  • Help And About Details
• Introduction To Autorun Analyzer
  • Starting Autorun Analyzer
    • From The Comodo Cleaning Essentials Interface
    • From The KillSwitch Interface
    • From The Folder Containing Comodo Cleaning Essentials Files
  • The Main Interface
  • Viewing And Handling Autorun Items
    • Handling Autorun Items
    • Filtering Entries Based On Categories
    • Viewing Autorun Items For Other User Accounts
  • Help And About Details
• Help And About Details
  • Help
  • About
• Using The Command Line Interface
  • Running A Smart Scan From The Command Line Interface
  • Running A Custom Scan From The Command Line Interface
  • Running A Virus Database Update Task From The Command Line Interface
  • Viewing Help
• About Comodo

Processes

 

The Processes window is displayed open by default and it shows all the processes that are currently running in your system as a table in the main display pane. To open the Processes window from closed state, click the down-arrow at the right of the 'Processes' stripe.

• The processes can be viewed in tree view or as a list.

• The new processes started and the processes that are stopped, processes identified as suspicious and hidden are highlighted with different colors. The highlighting colors can be set through Options > Configure Highlighting.

• Right clicking on a process opens a context sensitive menu that enables you to perform various operations like stop, restart, set priority, view properties, etc, on the process. You can even select multiple process (by holding the 'Ctrl' key while selecting the processes) to execute these actions.

 

The table below describes the columns that are displayed by default. You can add or remove the columns as per your requirement. Refer to Column Selection for more detailed explanation on this.

 

Process Table - Descriptions of Columns
Column	Description
Name	Displays the name of the processes. Clicking on the column header enables sorting the entries in tree structure, ascending or descending alphabetical order of the processes names.
PID	Displays the Process Identification number. Clicking on the column header enables sorting the entries in ascending or descending order of the PID numbers.
Rating	Displays the result of analysis on each process by KillSwitch using different scanners such as CAMAS. Processes are indicated as 'Safe' or 'Unsafe' as per the analysis. Clicking on the column header enables sorting the entries based on the rating.
Signer	Displays the name of the Software vendor that has signed the software, which invoked the process. Clicking on the column header enables sorting the entries based on the ascending or descending alphabetical order of the names of the signers.
CPU	Displays the CPU usage of the process as a portion of overall CPU usage by the process in percentage. Clicking on the column header enables sorting the entries based on the CPU usage.
Working Set	Shows the number of page files in the virtual memory, referenced by the process. Clicking on the column header enables sorting the entries based on working set.   Background Note: The working set of a process is the collection of information referenced by the process periodically. This collections are stored as page files in the secondary memory, such as the portion of the hard disk partitions allotted as virtual memory.
User Name	Displays the user that has initiated the process.
Description	Describes the nature of the processes.

• Placing the mouse cursor over a process displays a tool-tip that contains the details of the process.

 

 Column Selection

 

The Processes window displays the details on each process under eight columns. If you are an advanced user and wish to view more details on each process, you can configure the columns by adding or removing them.

 

To add or remove columns in Processes window:

• Click View > Select Columns

Or

• Right click on the table header and select 'Select Columns' from the context sensitive menu.

 

The 'Select Columns' dialog will appear. The dialog contains six tabs to configure the columns to be displayed for different categories of information on each process.

 

Refer to the sections below for more details on each tab:

• Process Image

• Process Performance

• Process Memory

• Module

• Service

• handles

Process Image

 

The Process Image tab allows you to select the columns to be displayed in the Process window, to provide the basic information about the process and its image file. You can also configure to display the command line, Data Execution Prevention (DEP) status and so on of the image file.

 

• Select the columns to be displayed by selecting the respective checkboxes

• Click OK for your configuration to take effect.

Process Performance

 

The Process Performance tab allows you to select the columns to be displayed in the Process window, to provide the detailed statistics and performance information like CPU usage, I/O activity and so on. This data will be useful to track the resource overhead of a process at a granular level.

 

• Select the columns to be displayed by selecting the respective checkboxes

• Click OK for your configuration to take effect.

Process Memory

The Process Memory tab allows you to select the columns to be displayed in the Process window, to provide granular details on memory usage of each process.

 

• Select the columns to be displayed by selecting the respective checkboxes

• Click OK for your configuration to take effect.

Module

 

The Module tab allows you to configure the columns to be displayed under the 'Modules' tab in the 'Properties' dialog of a process. For more details on the Properties dialog and the Modules tab, refer to the section Viewing Properties of a Process > Modules.

 

• Select the columns to be displayed by selecting the respective checkboxes

• Click OK for your configuration to take effect.

Service

 

The Service tab allows you to configure the columns to be displayed in the Services window. Refer to the section Services > Column Selection for more details.

 

Handles

 

The Handles tab allows you to configure the columns to be displayed under the 'Handles' tab in the 'Properties' dialog of a process. For more details on the Properties dialog and the 'Handles' tab, refer to the section Viewing Properties of a Process > Handles.

 

• Select the columns to be displayed by selecting the respective checkboxes

• Click OK for your configuration to take effect.

Next: Stopping, Starting and Handling the Processes