Process (Spybot - Search & Destroy)

Spybot - Search & Destroy has encountered and terminated a process that is listed as part of a malicious software.

Spybot-S&D; Resident watches all applications that are being started on your computer. It knows the same bad files as the on-demand scanner of Spybot-S&D;, and if it encounters an application that is known as a threat, it will automatically terminate this application.

After the process has been terminated, you are presented with a few choices. You can assign the action Resident should take the next time it encounters this threat (like automatically killing it, and/or deleting the offending file).

Q: Why does Resident terminate the application before asking?
A: Because threats like toll dialers are time critical - they cost from the first second they have connected. In order to protect you, these have to be terminated before they can connect at all, at the moment they appear.