Does anyone have any suggestions for (preferably free) software that can track process history to some kind of output file (or a way to make windoze do it)? I think this is what I need, but if not maybe someone can enlighten me:
I just noticed last night that on my XP machine, every five or so minutes (I haven't actually timed it) I get one of those "minimized" boxes popping up in the toolbar. The icon on it is just the little white and blue generic windows icon for a running exe. it lasts for a few seconds, then goes away. I can't be sure when this started, so can't trace it to any specific software install, and I don't want to have to uninstall a bunch of stuff to see what's causing it. I figure if I can track my process history, I can track the mystery down by proccess/program name.
It worries me in that its behavior is indicative of what I might expect spyware to do. I've already done full spyware, etc. checks using multiple programs and have come up clean.