Xcitium Cleaning Essentials

• Introduction To Comodo Cleaning Essentials
  • System Requirements
  • Download Comodo Cleaning Essentials
  • Start Comodo Cleaning Essentials
  • The Main Interface
• Scan Your System
  • Smart Scan
  • Full Scan
  • Custom Scan
  • Comparison Of Scan Types
• Configure Comodo Cleaning Essentials
• The Tools Menu
  • Manage Quarantined Items
  • Manage Trusted Vendors
  • Import Antivirus Database
  • Check For Software Updates
• Introduction To KillSwitch
  • Start KillSwitch
    • From The Comodo Cleaning Essentials Interface
    • From The Folder Containing Comodo Cleaning Essentials Files
    • Replace Windows Task Manager With KillSwitch
  • The Main Interface
    • The System Tray Icon
  • View And Handle Processes, Applications And Services
    • Processes
      • Stop, Start And Handle The Processes
      • View Properties Of A Process
    • Applications
      • Handle The Applications
    • Services
      • Stop, Start And Delete Services
  • View And Handle Network Connections And Usage
    • Network Connections
      • Inspect And Close Network Connections
    • Network Utilization
  • Configure KillSwitch
  • KillSwitch Tools
    • View System Information
    • Repair Windows Settings And Features
    • Analyze Program Usage
    • Search For Handles Or DLLs
    • Verify Authenticity Of Applications
    • Boot Log And Handle Loaded Modules
    • Run Programs From Command Line Interface
    • View KillSwitch Logs
    • Find Process Of The Active Window
  • Manage Currently Logged-in Users
  • Help And About Details
• Introduction To Autorun Analyzer
  • Start Autorun Analyzer
    • From The Comodo Cleaning Essentials Interface
    • From The KillSwitch Interface
    • From The Folder Containing Comodo Cleaning Essentials Files
  • The Main Interface
  • View And Handle Autorun Items
    • Handle Autorun Items
    • Filter Entries Based On Categories
    • View Autorun Items For Other User Accounts
  • Help And About Details
• Help And About Details
• Use The Command Line Interface
  • Run A Smart Scan From The Command Line Interface
  • Run A Custom Scan From The Command Line Interface
  • Run A Virus Database Update Task From The Command Line Interface
  • View Help
• About Comodo Security Solutions

Configure KillSwitch

 

The 'Options' menu lets you configure 'KillSwitch' at a granular level:

• Always on Top – When non-minimized, the KillSwitch window is always visible ahead of any other applications. Other applications will appear in the background.

• Replace Task Manager – All methods used to open Windows Task Manager will instead open KillSwitch. Example methods include:

• Ctrl + Alt + Del > Click 'Task Manager'

• Right-click on the Windows task-bar and click 'Task Manager' Task Bar

• Hide When Minimized - KillSwitch automatically hides itself when it is minimized. You can double-click on the system tray icon to reopen the application.

• Confirm Kill/Delete/Suspend/Restart – KillSwitch shows a confirmation dialog whenever you take actions on a process:

• CPU History in Tray Icon – A KillSwitch icon is shown in the system tray at the bottom-right corner of the screen.The icon provides a fast way to open or close the application, shutdown your system and so on. See 'The System Tray Icon' for more details.

• I/O History in Tray Icon – The tray icon shows graphics to represent the input/output activities of your computer.

• Resolve Network Address - If enabled, KillSwitch shows host names in the 'Local Address' and 'Remote Address' columns in the 'Network Connections' window. If not enabled, only the IP addresses of the local host and remote hosts are shown.

• Threats Log Level - Allows you to select the option for creating log reports. Hovering the mouse over Threats Log Level displays a sub-menu with the three options:

• Log All Events – Record every event that takes place. This produces the most comprehensive reports but at the cost of larger file sizes.

• Log Threats Only – Record only those events where KillSwitch detected a malicious process or service.

• Log Threats and Unknown Files - Record events which concern malicious processes, and processes for which no trust rating exists. 'Unknown' processes have not yet been tested to establish whether they are safe to run or not.

• Disable Logging - Do not record any events.

• Scan for Hidden Services - KillSwitch will run an instant scan for services running in the background

• Scan for Hidden Processes - KillSwitch will run an instant scan for programs running invisibily

• Configure Symbols – KillSwitch uses the program database symbols to resolve their function names to find the start addresses and stack locations of threads.

• This is displayed in the 'Threads' tab of the process in properties dialog.

• If you have relocated the pdb files, you can specify the new path of the file through this option.

 

• Configure Highlighting –

• Click 'Tools' > 'Configure Highlighting'

• KillSwitch color codes processes as follows:

• Processes window - Running, stopped, suspicious or hidden processes

• Applications window - New applications and applications that are closing

• Services window - New services and services that are closing

• Network Connections window - New connections and connections that are closing

• Graphs (on the right) – Various colors to represent different resources

The highlighting screen lets you change these color to your preferences:

• Highlighting– Set the colors you want to use for various process statuses

• Rating – Set the colors you want to use for the trust rating of a process

• Graph– Select the color of each line on a KillSwitch chart:

• CPU usage by Kernel

• CPU usage by User initiated applications and processes

• I/O Read Only

• I/O Write

• Physical Memory Usage

• Private Bytes

• Network Input

• Network Output

To change the color of a desired line

1. Click on the color patch beside the required parameter. The 'Color' window opens with the default color selected.

2. Choose the color for highlighting or the graph line. You can do this by two ways:

• Directly choose the color from the palate; or

• Click on 'More Colors...' to add a custom color to the palate and select it.

3. Click 'OK'.

The highlighting and/or graph lines will be displayed with the colors you have chosen.

• Language - KillSwitch is available in several language. Hovering the mouse cursor over 'Language' in the 'Options' menu shows the list of languages. You can select the language for application from the list.