Finally I moved from windows 98 to windows XP. I found there are lots of garbages running, so I decided to kill them AUTOMATICALLY. I also running anti-virus and anti-adware, but just want one more layer of defense.

The main thing is to maintain a list of processes that you want to kill.

I can make it also delete the binaries, but I found it useful to manually delete them, as at the same time, you might find files that are associated, for example, .dat.

use Win32::Process::Info;
use Win32::Process;
use Data::Dumper;

use strict;
use warnings;

my $badprocess = {
                  "bargains.exe" => 1,
                  "cdywnqk.exe" => 1,
                "msbb.exe" => 1, 
                  "msn.exe"=>1,
                  "sp2update.exe" => 1,
                  "syncroad.exe" => 1,
              "webrebates0.exe" => 1,
              "webrebates1.exe" => 1,
                  "winabsmod.exe" => 1,
                  "winnet.exe" => 1
                 };

my $pi = Win32::Process::Info->new();
my @info = $pi->GetProcInfo ();   

for my $i (0..$#info) {
    if (defined($badprocess->{lc($info[$i]->{"Caption"})})) {
        my $exit = 0;
        print "About to kill " . $info[$i]->{"ExecutablePath"} . "\n";
+    
        Win32::Process::KillProcess($info[$i]->{"ProcessId"}, $exit);

    }
}

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