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Monday Grind Blueprint · #7

Teaching the AI to Spot Fake Windows Processes

Last week my AI learned 12 questions from strangers. This week it learns to spot fakes.

By Marcin Firmuga·2026-05-11·2 min read·Monday Grind Blueprint #7

Last week my AI learned 12 new questions from strangers on the internet. This week it learns to spot fake processes pretending to be Windows.

Week 2 of Google's AI certification — Żabka shifts, course material, and a roadmap that keeps growing.

PC Workman this week

  1. Stop non-essential services on demand — three profiles, with a hardcoded whitelist (audio, network, security, drivers never get touched). One-click restore.
  2. Suspend inactive background processes — the quiet resource eaters nobody notices until RAM hits 90%.
  3. Auto power-plan switching — TURBO flips to High Performance and back to Balanced. No manual trips to Control Panel.

On the horizon (v1.7.8)

A mini anti-virus — fully offline. No signatures, no cloud lookups, just pattern detection on data PC Workman already collects: flag processes pretending to be Microsoft but aren't (svch0st.exe vs svchost.exe), detect crypto miners by abnormal CPU patterns, alert on sudden high-privilege processes. Not a Defender replacement — a quiet guardian that knows what's normal for your machine. Plus 20–30 new hck_GPT intents from community questions.

Google course + Żabka + three TURBO features and the start of offline threat detection. Friday will tell the truth.

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This is the project behind the post. PC Workman is a free, open-source Windows system monitor with an offline AI assistant - everything described here is real, shipped code. Download it or read the source.
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Marcin Firmuga

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