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Viruses & Task Viewers
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It also depends on the viewer. I remember using
prctl()
in C to chamge a process name and top showed my change but htop didn't. I'm sure a competent malware writer would be able to trick it thoughiirc, postgresql renames itself in htop to show its current status and which database it's operating on