How You Can Use The Task Manager To Detect Malicious Software

Task Manager in Windows is another way how you can detect malicious software running in the background. But, there will also be a time when you want to use the Task Manager but you cannot open it.

First of all, you need to download HijackThis! because it has Process Manager tool in Misc Tools section and put the shortcut to HijackThis! on your desktop. This is because if you cannot access your Task Manager, you can still kill the malicious process by using the Process Manager.

There was one time when I cannot open my Task Manager and My Computer and therefore, I cannot kill the malicious software process. That's why I advise you to put a direct shortcut to HijackThis on your desktop.

After that, open your Task Manager and search in Google for all the process. Let's say you don't know what CPF.exe is, find it in Google and you'll know that it's a Comodo Firewall Pro process. Using this way, you can know if there are any malicious software running in the background.

I've used this method countless times to make sure that my system is clean from any threats.