If your PC slows down or freezes up frequently, there’s a good chance that too many programs and services running, among which some of them might be malicious. In this case, you won’t get enough details to tell which app hogs up your system resources with devious intention, from Windows Task Manager.

Security Task Manager, a task-manager like a program that shows great details about each program and process on your PC, which includes the malicious-or-not results, manufacturer, software category, and usage ratings based on the community feedback. Also, this kind of software would usually provide a one-click feature to stop or uninstall the malicious programs or processes.

The program will also raise plenty of false alarms, unfortunately. This is because of the mechanism to decide the risk level which has a limited database of malware characteristics. In this way, we could not take Security Task Manager’s ratings too seriously. And keeping a good habit of downloading apps and programs from authorized websites or stores could save the trouble.

As for the pricing, Security Task Manager costs $29 for a one-year subscription, which you might be less sure about that. You could try on the 30-day-trial version, which is safe to use.

Actually, to keep yourself from malicious apps or processes, you can turn on the Real-time Protection on Neptune SystemCare Ultimate. Except for the PC optimization feature, it can protect your computer from identifying and stop the applications and processes attempting to modify your computer and change the Windows registry.