Slow performance following upgrade [SOLVED]

[Matthew Woehlke]

Zak Johnson wrote:
> I've tracked this down to yet another Dodgy Application: "EMBASSY Trust
> Suite" by Wave Systems.  This inserts wxvault.dll into every process's
> DLL list.  I disabled that DLL using the Sysinternals Autoruns tool,
> rebooted, and all works perfectly.

Didn't we know about that one?

http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00856.html
Ah... indeed we did; the fingerprint reader. Dave, you missed one. :-)

This bring up an interesting thought. If chgcheck looks for this sort of 
thing, it would probably be a good idea to get the dll list of a process 
where that list is known (ok, that's just about any process :-)) and 
compare the list we get with what is expected.

Or, put another way... we can check what Hippos are in a Watering Hole 
for which we know what Hippos are supposed to be there. Then, any Hippos 
that aren't supposed to be there (like, say, the one in the pink tutu 
:-D) can be flagged as Dodgy-Looking Hippos.

-- 
Matthew
Patches Thoughtfully Considered -- FLOSS mantra