Delete RedSwoosh.exe
In my continuing battle with this goddammed Microsoft-sabotaged PC, I called up Task Manager at one point early in the day and noticed something very strange.
RedSwoosh.exe was listed. But I’d seen that before.
This time, however, it was — when Task Manager was sorted to CPU usage — irregularly popping to the top at the list and eating 97-98% of CPU!
WTF?!!?
I did some research. Red Swoosh as a sole company no longer exists. It was purchased by Akamai and there is no way to get information about the program from them (at least that I could discover).
I remember a long time ago having Red Swoosh recommended somewhere for some sort of P2P app.
And then today I also discovered that Red Swoosh is used by the FoxTorrent plug-in. I have that plug-in, but never used it, and it’s been turned off.
So, I uninstalled the FoxTorrent plug-in and then I went to Control Panel and uninstalled RedSwoosh.exe.
I haven’t done comprehensive testing, but I can say for today, the PC has seemed peppier.
If any of you have been experiencing intermittent sluggishness on your PC, look for RedSwoosh.exe and uninstall it.
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Mike Cane 2008 
January 17, 2009 at 10:46 am
Thanks Mike,
I didn’t think that FF Addons were allowed to do that!
Very sneaky, and not very nice.
Now to stop the dreaded Kontiki P2P service (Part of BBCs iPlayer) …
April 14, 2009 at 3:20 am
Same here — at start up that PIG gobbled up 41 CPU seconds on a W2K system, no doubt trying to talk to the nonexistent redswoosh.net site you get directed to at uninstall time to [sic] improve your computing experience. Some folks just should NOT ever be allowed to write network apps ever again.
Had a torrent client installed once or twice a while ago and never thought about it. I improved my computing experience by uninstalling it. Good riddance!
Could not find any useful info on the web, only come-ons from so-called process authority sites.
Then I found this site. Happy happy, joy joy.
When WILL MS declare any exe file that doesn’t include full info a virus?