How do you spot a virus or t horse under processes in Windows Task Manager?

Question

How do you spot a virus or t horse under processes in Windows Task Manager?

Answer 1

Look at the svhosts.exe their extremly small, no more than about 45k

Answer 2

Look for something with a weird name that is taking up lots of CPU cycles.  You can Google (or Yahoo) the process name and find a number of sites that will explain what its purpose is, and if it is legitimate.

Answer 3

just try googling the process name.  it works fine for me.

and some websites will even say if it's a harmful program or not.

Answer 4

funny you should ask ive just found a fake svchost using pcguard total and superantispyware i had norton 2008 and have had it for 3 years and it didnt find it