Just recently I found out my ETrust anti-virus from Innoculate is causing my services.exe to cause the 98% CPU issue. This renders everything all but useless. Based on a previous thread, disabling the event logger helped me track it down. Once I used SAFE mode and disabled the virus software from starting at user logon, the services.exe is happy and CPU usgae goes to normal idle. I am taking this issue up with ETrust and see where that gets me. Anybody else run into this with another virus software package? I have had the ETrust running for about 5 months now, downloading signature files about every 3 days. I downloaded them and then shutdown, upon startup again, problem was there so it has to be something with that. Thanks if anyone knows anything more or has had a similar conclusion.

I just came home after a trip and found my hard disk crunching away and the receive light on my cable modem flashing like mad. My mouse would freeze and I saw that the CPU usage would spike up to 100%. Using the Win XP task manager, I found a couple of programs writing to the hard disk - one being service.exe. Since I didn't know what services.exe was I ran an Internet search and found your note. I am running Norton Ant-Virus. I have disabled the auto-protect and my computer seems to be running better but my modem light is still flashing. I guess I'll have to talk to Norton.

I have the same problem Windows 2000 Pro. I am using Norton Anti-Virus, and not ETrust, but I'll check with Norton anyway. Any other theories out there?

I´m using neither Norton nor ETrust Anti Virus. But the services.exe sometimes has the same effect: Win2000Pro-TaskManager shows a CPU-Usage of between 90 and 100 %. Just after restarting the system, I press shift while loading the Win Desktop. In most cases It´s alright afterwards, but I have no idea where it comes from. Perhaps we should kill Billy and all his MS-s---...

I have the same problem, but I'm running McAfee. I'm also running zonealarm; perhaps Mcafee and zonealarm are arguing. I'm not happy running my system without an antivirus, and without a firewall. I restarted my PC, Mcafee and zonealarm started up again, and services.exe is quiet.

We are running Win2k Pro with McAfee and are having the same problem. I had figured it was an antivirus problem all along. If anyone hears of a fix, I hope they'll post it here!!

If you have a LAN card in your system update the drivers. Services.exe is related to network traffic and this may be caused by a flakey driver. Good Luck