Once the scan is done, you can see the score under the “VirusTotal” column.Ħ. As soon as you do that, Process Explorer will submit all processes to VirusTotal.
Now, you will be prompted to agree to the license terms. To scan the processes, select the “Options → → Check ” option.Ĥ.
After opening the Process Explorer, you will see a huge list of all running processes. For example, I’m on a 64-bit system so I’m using procexp64.exe file.ģ. Now, depending on your system architecture right-click on the relevant EXE file and select the “Run as administrator” option. Once downloaded, open the ZIP file and extract its contents to a folder on the desktop.Ģ. First, go ahead and download Process Explorer from the Microsoft website. Though sounds complicated, it is pretty easy to do with Process Explorer. In case you don’t know, VirusTotal is a cloud-based antivirus service that uses more than 60 different antivirus engines to scan any given program, process, or file. The advantage of Process Explorer is that it uses a free service called VirusTotal to scan the running Windows processes. We are going to use a free Microsoft tool called Process Explorer. The good thing is, you don’t have to use full-fledged antivirus software to scan processes. Most antivirus software doesn’t provide any way to scan just the running processes. So, in this quick article, let me show how you can scan Windows processes for virus or malware threats and determine if they are safe to run or not. However, if you want to manually check if a process is safe or not, you have to use specialized process scanning tools in Windows. Often, antivirus software can easily scan any running process of threats. This antivirus software can not only scan your system automatically or on-demand but even provides real-time protection. In fact, Windows even has its own antivirus software called Windows Defender built into it. To combat that, Windows has several antivirus and anti-malware software. It is a known fact that Windows is the primary target for all kinds of viruses, malware and other types of threats.
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