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Activity Monitor

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Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 29 May 2009 10:36:19 (GMT)
Last updated 24 September 2009 03:55:58 (GMT)
Detected by Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows, version 7, and PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange.

More Information

"Activity Monitor" is a system monitoring application from www.softactivity.com.

The default installation location is:

<Program Files>\SoftActivity

The following files and folders will also be typically created:

<Start Menu\Programs>\\Activity Monitor
<Start Menu\Programs>\\Activity Monitor\Activity Monitor.lnk
<Start Menu\Programs>\\Activity Monitor\Activity Monitor Help.lnk
<Start Menu\Programs>\\Activity Monitor\Activity Monitor website.lnk
<Start Menu\Programs>\\Activity Monitor\Purchase Activity Monitor.lnk
<Start Menu\Programs>\\Activity Monitor\Uninstall Activity Monitor.lnk
<Start Menu\Programs>\\Activity Monitor\SoftActivity Log Viewer.lnk
<Desktop>\Activity Monitor.lnk
<User>\Application Data\Softativity
<User>\Application Data\Softativity\alist.dat

Registry entries are created under:

HKCR\SoftActivity Log
HKCR\.salog
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{142E758E-2AC3-443A-A549-7E6A036285A2}_is1
HKCU\Software\Softactivity
HKCU\Toolbars state\BCGPBaseControlBar-157
HKCU\Toolbars state\BCGPControlBar-157

Activity Monitor provides an uninstall option which can be accessed via the Add or Remove Programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. The software is listed as "Activity Monitor 4.4".

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