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CPU usage 100% due to system usage
Name: DDM Date: October 8, 2003 at 01:50:23 Pacific OS: win2000 CPU/Ram: PIII
Comment:
I'm using win2000(Pro), ADSL, PIII. Updated 2003 Norton Virus Scan.
My CPU usage is always 100% no matter is online or offline. It happened suddenly on yesterday after leaving my Internet Connection intact. I've checked the task manager. It is first the msn???.exe cause 90% of the usage. I deleted this application in the task manager. Then, it turns to be the "System" which occupy 100% of the CPU usage. Am I catching a virus? What can I do now? The processing of my PC is very very slow!!
Name: wawadave Date: October 8, 2003 at 12:59:06 Pacific
Reply:
hello you may have a virus or trojin .Or hacker acessing you computer through mesanger try these scans panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp nrav av http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ avast cleaning tool http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html mcafee avert stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ scans for open trojin ports http://scan.sygate.com/pretrojanscan.html test my sheilds grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
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