Good site for descriptions of processes?

Question

There was a time when identifying the purpose of a process took about 10 seconds with a quick googling. Now everybody and their brother has some garbage crapware site trying to sell you something because "[your search term] may be a virus! Install this to make sure you're safe!"

Is there a decent site for tracking down services, or am I just behind the times and this is pointless because everybody just names their virus after some common and legitimate executable?

Answer 1

Couple of links,

• Process-dll.com
• ProcessLibrary.com (have used the process scanner on this site some times)
• One more good place -- Windows Processes - Introduction

Was reminded of these links from,
A Very Comprehensive Windows (vista And Xp) Process And Dll Library.
Which has a few other good references too.

Answer 2

Process Library is a part of Uniblue, which imho has some annoying marketing tactics - but this page is the best I've found so far. You just have to be careful where you click. Avoid the "Free scans" and the like.

Answer 3

http://www.blackviper.com