anyone good with pcs?

Post by **ADF-ChooB** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:32 pm

Explorer.exe eating up 50% CPU
but after i end process and restart explorer it runs at 0-2% untillt i play a game or somthing... it just stays at 50% when i quit the game...

Spec
AMD athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 4200+
2.21 GHz, 2.00GB of Ram

Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition
SP2

oh and a few more question...
are Msn suppose to take up 37,000k of mem?
and firefox 44,000k ??

Post by **ADF-Baby** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:05 pm

do a spyware and trojan scan and let us know what happens

Post by **ADF-Nobbie** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:22 pm

spybot, AVG and ZoneAlarm - boom - problem gone away..........

Post by **Wed13** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:20 pm

my old man pays 4 a very good scan called counter spy we had the trojan twice and it got rid of it easly

Post by **ADF-ChooB** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:11 pm

can any moderaters move this to chat? xD
there might be ppl that are none members that can help aswell?
ive done a spyware scan came up with 1 trojan that ive never touched

and ive done a v scan like 2 weeks ago buthell im doin another one right now ill post again when its finished

Post by **ADF-Nobbie** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:59 pm

Firefox could easily take that much. Hell when surfin for "you know what" I can double that

Post by **ADF-ChooB** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:55 pm

err but i had 1 ff browser open.... which is for this... site...
nyway i finsihed the scan with avast..... no infected files....
now scanning with AVG which i just downloaded...
going to sleep ill post the results 2mor~~~ later~~

Post by **ADF-ChooB** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:37 am

thx for the move

now ive finished with the AVG anti malware found some things.. deleted..
still runs at 50%... after leaving my pc on.... i notice my msn is running at 40% now.. just up and down with explorer.exe =[

now im running the AVG anti virus

post results later

Post by **Merv** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:18 am

its just the n00b AMD cpu

they are powerless ...lol

Post by **ADF-Nobbie** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:28 am

Seriously tho - Firefox with 8 tabs uses 116K and MSN is currently using 55K

I would suggest that you continue to look for Trojans etc. Spybot search and destroy is another free one that works for me.

Another place to look is inside your MSCONFIG. From the START then

just type in MSCONFIG. Have a look at the startup tab and, if you have time, search for the processes on google or write them down. There is quite often something which is loaded when you start which shouldn't. It's easy to spot a rogue process and is quite often the cause of the problems. Time consuming but well worth it.

Some more info if you like:
1. Adaware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
2. Spybot http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-D ... 89035.html
3. Housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/houseca ... t_corp.asp
4. CWshredder http://www.download.com/3000-8022_4-10301587.html
5. Stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

Nobbies

Post by **Merv** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:02 pm

shouldn't this be in the windows support area

Post by **ADF-Nobbie** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:24 pm

Nah - we're only chatting at the mo

Post by **ADF-Deano** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:07 pm

HiJackThis is another good one....go here to download it.

http://download.hijackthis.eu/hijackthis_199.zip

and then once a log is created go here

http://www.hijackthis.de/

and paste the log or upload it.And it will tell you any suspect process's that are running.....another good one is http://www.pestpatrol.com/.It is not free but you can get it....

when cleaning PC's i always use HiJackThis, Pest Patrol and Spybot.....they all have there advantages....

Post by **ADF-ChooB** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:25 pm

well ive just got home from school... started the scan.... found 2 trojans in my windows files... dunno if that did the job... after the scan is finsih ill start a game and test it out

oh btw the explorer.exe running at 50% dont lag me at all in any games still gettin full fps etc etc... but i just wanna fix it before it gets wroste =/

Post by **ADF-Deano** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:43 pm

another idea could be to pull the cable for the nternet connection (or phone line whatever?) and see if you explorer process starts to die down....this could maybe help you find out if it's spyware or not....

also download process explorer to see which process is using what.

Post by **ADF-ChooB** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:50 pm

ok lol the AVG AV found a virus which infected 115 of my files lmao....

that'll teach me to turn my firewall off....

anyway after those files been healed its fixed...

AVG > over scanners lol

Post by **ADF-Deano** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:07 pm

ADF-ChooB wrote:ok lol the AVG AV found a virus which infected 115 of my files lmao....

that'll teach me to turn my firewall off....

anyway after those files been healed its fixed...

AVG > over scanners lol

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