Hidden process in red?

Hi everyone!

I spotted one hidden process in Red in PE and it was weatherbug from weatherbug.com. Why would it be hidden and in red? I thought the red one's were the bad ones. I have never noticed it before.

 

Hi Rilla,
Does it have a systray icon? If so and you click the systray icon it should turn to normal.
You might like to enable spying on it for a short while to see what data is transmitted and decide whether it's innocent enough.

 

Yes

Yes, sometimes it has a problem loading though.

I did as you said Jooske and I seen a bunch of svchost and weatherbug.com.

Thanks so much Jooske

 

Weatherbug is discussed a lot. Spyware not, adware yes, and some more.
http://www.pchell.com/support/weatherbug.shtml
http://netrn.net/spywareblog/archives/2005/05/30/aol-verisign-truste-direct-revenue/
http://www.searchlores.org/weatherbug.htm
These threads have some discussions, the third a review with screenshots and examples what the program is doing.
So your spy report should show in fact only traffic to your system and not collecting from your system, but to get adequate advertisement to your system it should know a bit about your habits and interest and thus should it follow you somewhat .......
If it's not loading pretty as you would like it can be caused by some of your security settings.

 

Hello Rilla927,

Dump Weatherbug and get Weather Pulse. It's spyware and adware free.

http://www.tropicdesigns.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=1

Server is down at the present moment. You wont get it at Snap Files either until the server problem is corrected.

Weather Pulse can also be found at Snap Files.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/weatherpulse.html

Enjoy

 

I would consider the "Free" Konfabulator with its cool Weather report... Mine reports 7 cities right now with full forcast for 7 days. Very acurate so far...
It uses widgets and a few strange things happen but after scoping all of it for a couple of weeks now all is clean.

To download main applet:
http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Here is a page of Weather related widgets... All pretty cool and they work!
http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/index.php?search=weather&x=6&y=11

Enjoy!

 

Red means the process is hidden. That is, it doesn't have any components (such as windows) that are visible and within the on-screen region of your screen. For this reason trojans and worms nearly always appear as red, although it doesn't necessarily mean that a red process is a trojan/worm. The only exception to this is system tray icons, as there is no documented or easy way to programatically determine which processes have active system tray icons (which are controlled by the explorer.exe process).

Best regards,
Wayne

 

Sorry took so long to get back, I will post something sometimes and forget about it, I think I'm getting Alzheimers.

The traffic was legitamate Jooske, Thanks.

Rilla927

 

@Hardhead and Hermescomputers


thanks for the links, they are both neat. I have both.

Rilla927

 

Your precise explanations always help to understand better, thanks Wayne!

Rilla927

 

No trouble at all!