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From: Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com>
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Subject: Process names
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:30:10 +1300
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I was just looking at Process Viewer to check CPU usage of an app and
spotted a few weird processes popping up and disappearing. These had
strange names like the Apple logo, the infinity sumbol, or a few other
weird characters. I think they were all Root processes. Anyone know
what these are?