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Mr.G (@¿@) - 30 May 2007 20:10 GMT

Hi and thanks for any advice. When I run System Monitor I get these
spikes every 3-4 seconds monitoring the processor usage. Is this
caused by a virus or a trogen or data miner or something? thanks

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AlmostBob - 30 May 2007 21:37 GMT

yes it is caused by a virus or a trojan or something,
now that the smart aleck reply is out of the way,
the 'something' may be something that you installed and require, or one of
many unneccessary helper apps,
*there are utilities that can tell you what processes are running,
ctrl-alt-del lists many but others hide,
*and web sites that can tell if those processes are supposed to be running
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx
is one of the first
I like http://www.tasklist.org for the second not because its any better,
just the first one I found when I messed up my pc

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> Hi and thanks for any advice. When I run System Monitor I get these
> spikes every 3-4 seconds monitoring the processor usage. Is this
> caused by a virus or a trogen or data miner or something? thanks

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Mr.G (@¿@) - 31 May 2007 17:15 GMT

On May 30, 3:37 pm, "AlmostBob" <anonymo...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

> yes it is caused by a virus or a trojan or something,
> now that the smart aleck reply is out of the way,
[quoted text clipped - 29 lines]
> > spikes every 3-4 seconds monitoring the processor usage. Is this
> > caused by a virus or a trogen or data miner or something? thanks

Thanks for the links. I got from downloads.com a utility called Task
Manager and found a few of those hidden running files actually DLLs
don't know what called them but after renaming them so can't be loaded
anymore my computer got faster on the internet but I still have those
spikes!! I'll be getting those programs and see what they come up
with, thanks again ;)

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