I have an external piece of software that is used for unattended offsite backups, unfortunately it regularly hangs but holds the telephone line open; thus resulting in a huge bill!

I know that it should have always finished by 2am and want to check if it is still running - if it is I need to either kill the task or reboot the machine (effectively killing it).

I appreciate I should change the software for one that dosn't hang but politics etc prohibits this.

Any ideas would be welcomed

Thanks