Hello, The last few days my pc gets slower and slower, if i check my taskmaneger i can see that svchost.exe is loaded 4 or 5 times, i've already heard that that's normal. But one of the svchost.exe uses from 30% to 70% of my cpu and i don't know why it takes that much. I've searched for answers why it's that high, but i haven't found a good answer... I hope someone here can help me with this. This is the list that is been shown when i give "dos" the command: tasklist /svc Imagenaam Proces Services ========================= ====== ============================================= System Idle Process 0 n.v.t. System 4 n.v.t. smss.exe 432 n.v.t. csrss.exe 492 n.v.t. winlogon.exe 516 n.v.t. services.exe 560 Eventlog, PlugPlay lsass.exe 572 PolicyAgent, ProtectedStorage, SamSs svchost.exe 732 RpcSs svchost.exe 796 AudioSrv, BITS, Browser, CryptSvc, Dhcp, dmserver, ERSvc, EventSystem, FastUserSwitchingCompatibility, helpsvc, lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation, Messenger, Netman, Nla, RasMan, Schedule, seclogon, SENS, ShellHWDetection, srservice, TapiSrv, TermService, Themes, TrkWks, W32Time, winmgmt, wuauserv, WZCSVC svchost.exe 1036 Dnscache svchost.exe 1056 LmHosts, RemoteRegistry, SSDPSRV, WebClient spoolsv.exe 1140 Spooler ccEvtMgr.exe 1264 ccEvtMgr Crypserv.exe 1276 Crypkey License mdm.exe 1320 MDM navapsvc.exe 1344 navapsvc NPROTECT.EXE 1372 NProtectService nvsvc32.exe 1512 NVSvc svchost.exe 1588 stisvc dllhost.exe 1116 COMSysApp msdtc.exe 892 MSDTC Explorer.EXE 3168 n.v.t. ccApp.exe 3612 n.v.t. CTHELPER.EXE 3908 n.v.t. hpgs2wnd.exe 344 n.v.t. type32.exe 296 n.v.t. qttask.exe 816 n.v.t. EM_EXEC.EXE 2076 n.v.t. Winampa.exe 2108 n.v.t. hpgs2wnf.exe 2244 n.v.t. ctfmon.exe 2648 n.v.t. WZQKPICK.EXE 2912 n.v.t. msmsgs.exe 3944 n.v.t. devldr32.exe 2536 n.v.t. cmd.exe 3136 n.v.t. wmiprvse.exe 1620 n.v.t. tasklist.exe 2644 n.v.t. Can someone tell me how to reduce my cpu usage? And if there's maybe some kind of virus on my pc? Kind Regards, Harrie

Yes, you definatly have a virus on yur system. It's probably the Blaster, Gaobot or a variant thereof.

Just incidentally, you may have a lot in your startup. That's an awful lot of processes. I'm guessing you don't need a lot or most of them. Check it out after you get rid of the bad stuff.