To help determine if spyware, adware, a remote access trojan, or other piece of malicious software is running on your system, you can use PestPatrol to display detailed information on the list of running processes.

1. Click "Logs" - "Running Processes".
2. A list of running processes will appear, including:

* Process identifier, including filename
* Status (whether or not PestPatrol thinks the process is ok)
* Process ID
* Path to running process
* Size in memory of process
* MD5 hash of process
* Process file's date and time
* Process company name if applicable
* Process file description if applicable
* Process file version if applicable (may differ from the product version)
* Process internal name, an identifier, if applicable
* Process copyright information if applicable
* Process original filename if applicable
* Process product name if applicable
* Process product version if applicable

You may have to expand the PestPatrol window size or use the horizontal scroll bar to view all available information.

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