Apparent Rogue Process

[Gary Watts]

During the course of today I have noticed a considerable degredation in
system performance. On checking task manager I have found a process
("agent.exe") that is running and gradually using more and more memory.
Having checked MSCONFIG this would not appear to be a start-up process.
However, when I terminate the process, it automatically restarts and repeats
the memory hugging all over again.

How can I :-

1) Establish what is triggering this process and
2) Prevent it from running.

Thanks,

 

[Andrew Morton]

During the course of today I have noticed a considerable degredation
in system performance. On checking task manager I have found a process
("agent.exe") that is running and gradually using more and more
memory. Having checked MSCONFIG this would not appear to be a
start-up process. However, when I terminate the process, it
automatically restarts and repeats the memory hugging all over again.

How can I :-

1) Establish what is triggering this process and
2) Prevent it from running.

You'd be better off asking in a Windows-related newsgroup/forum - this one
is for the .net framework.

(Hint: you might want to google for agent.exe before looking for a more
relevant newsgroup.)

Andrew