Is there a program that allows you to view all the programs or processes conected to a single process?

Question

What I want to be able to do is view the process tree of a single running process. Is that possible and how? For example if a virus is using iexplorer.exe as a shell to access the internet is there a way I can view the program or process or Registry key or whatever is activating it?

In my opinion I think Microsoft is sleeping on the job with the development of their Windows Task Manager. How is it that you can only see the process but not what is connecting to it? There should be a program recording the process tree of every program which should also be viewable by the user. That would solve half the problem of trying to trace and debug problems manually. I don't know, is it me or does that sound like a better idea?

Answer 1

Yep, Microsoft's Process Explorer will give you exactly what you want (and it's free)...

You can download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx