Re: Whatsrunning

de ms 01/19/2007 10:55

John Corliss <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in
news:12r1fm4cectoi97@corp.supernews.com:

> Yrrah wrote:
>> John Corliss <jcorliss@fake.invalid>:
>>
>>> "What's Running is a product that gives you an inside look into your
>>> Windows 2000/XP/2003 system.
>>
>>> Has anybody used this program?
>>
>> I have. It gives a lot of information, adds 43 keys to the registry
>> and tries to phone home (which you can block).
>
> I just installed it and gave it a try. Pretty nice layout and a lot of
> info. However, the Description field for most drivers are blank (to be
> fair, this probably isn't the fault of the program but rather reflects
> the fact that driver coders don't include this info in what they
> write.)
>
> Couple of things I like about it is that clicking on a column heading
> actually works and sorts the results properly. Also, you can take a
> snapshot of the system as well as compare a saved snapshot with a new
> one. It's kind of like Process Explorer or a2hijackfree on steroids.
>
> Regarding your concerns:
>
> 1. IMO, 43 added registry keys isn't a lot by today's standards, I can
> live with this.
>
> 2. As for the phoning home, I didn't observe that behavior. Of course,
> this may be due to one of my more global firewall settings. Can you
> provide the server address it was trying to connect with and the
> protocol?
>
> TIA
>
John, I've used 2.2 in W2K for awhile, converted from install, and no
phone-home behaviour, Kerio would have let me know.

Mike Sa