[Michael]

A lot of threats will not run if they can determine they are being monitored.

Here is an example of a Password Stealing Trojan from China which tried to infect my PC:



This must have been only one of the many processes that were launched... I know I was owned when I started seeing various pop ups coming straight from my taskbar including various Baidu ads as well as some Chinese adult sites.



Meanwhile, I was monitoring this threat and you can see a bit of what it did to my machine on the screenshot below.



Needless to say that after being infected, your system is at the mercy of those hackers... Also, browsing is now a lot slower!!

Jerome