Microsoft Ships New Malware Hunting Utility
Posted in Internet by Sane on November 9th, 2006 On the heels of its July 2006 acquisition of Mark Russinovich’s Winternals Software, Microsoft has replaced the popular Regmon and Filemon utilities with a single tool offering advanced capabilities for real-time monitoring of registry and process thread activity.The release of the new utility, called Process Monitor coincides with the relaunch of the Sysinternals portal as the Windows Sysinternals TechCenter on Microsoft TechNet.Russinovich, a respected Windows kernel guru who joined the Redmond, Wash. vendor as a Technical Fellow in the Platforms and Services Division, describes Process Monitor as “a powerful new monitoring tool that is best described as Regmon and Filemon on steroids.” more…
