Last night I noticed this in Process Explorer
verclsid.exe 4124 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
verclsid.exe 656 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
verclsid.exe 1996 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 438 10,020
verclsid.exe 4464 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 438 9,948
verclsid.exe 6020 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
verclsid.exe 4608 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
verclsid.exe 340 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 438 10,020
verclsid.exe 4860 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
iexplore.exe 5848 2.27 Internet Explorer Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe 35,592 2,173,071
verclsid.exe 5076 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
verclsid.exe 3136 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
verclsid.exe 3740 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
verclsid.exe 2404 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
verclsid.exe 5912 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 438 10,020
verclsid.exe 2520 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 438 10,020
verclsid.exe 2980 Verify Class ID Microsoft Corporation MEDCENTER\Vince C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe 435 10,020
turns out, yesterday's fixes from MS introduces this exe to validate ActiveX controls.. So now i have a million of these processes running.
Quote:
This security update introduces a new file, Verclsid.exe. Verclsid.exe is used to verify a COM object before it is instantiated by Windows Explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms06-015.mspxYuck