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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: vibhor_agarwalin on October 06, 2005, 04:40:50 AM
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Hi,
Sometimes in a couple of weeks my system performance shows that its using 70% of cpu, whereas none of the processes are using any of cpu.
I can feel that the machine is slow.
Simply restarting makes it fine.
Could it be spyware or anything.
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Free online virus scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
Free online spyware scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/spyxposer/com/spyxposer_principal.htm
Did you test that RAM yet? ???
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Virus scanners
AVG Free (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1)
-- Anti virus scanner
Trend Micro Housecall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/)
-- Online anti virus scanner.
Anti spy/malware
Microsoft Antispyware (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en)
-- Anti spyware scanner. Windows XP Home and Professional only.
Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html)
-- Anti spyware scanner
Adaware SE Personal (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/)
-- Anti spyware scanner
Firewalls
Use both a hardware and software firewall.
Be advised as dual software firewalls may cause problems
ZoneAlarm Free (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp)
-- Free firewall - more user friendly
Sygate Personal (http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm)
-- Free firewall - more configuration options
Removal tools
The following files are not substitutes for the ones described above.
They are either diagnostic tools or removal tools for malware of a certain kind
HijackThis (http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip)
-- Manual malware remover. Post the HijackThis log generated only if requested!
McAfee Stinger (http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/)
-- Virus removal tool. No substitute for a fully functional virus scanner!
CWshredder (http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html)
-- CoolWebSearch removal tool. Widely known and persistant Hijacker.
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The ultimate test is know your own pc........just like you motorcycle,car, or even your body.........you know when something is wrong.....look after it ,and it will look after you.....run tests......like sisoftsandra/adia32.....use a search engine to seek more knowledge.....
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Yes i am aware of that list.
I'll scan someday, as it has 90 GB disk space.
So scanning takes about 1 day.
Has anybody seen this type of problem with a specific virus/spyware?
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You should download and run ProcExp from http://www.sysinternals.com, you know where that is right?
It will show you exactly what is using your CPU.
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This looks more feasible.
Now i have to wait for that thing to happen :(
Sometimes you have to wait for bad things to happen, isn't it. ;D
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Nope,
I couldn't find CpuProc.
All that i could see related is PsList.
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You will not find ProcExp by looking for CpuProc.
The one you need to look for is ProcExp, it's short for Process Explorer so that will help you remember its name.
Process Explorer v9.25
Process Explorer v9.2 shows a real-time CPU graph in its tray icon, adds CPU graph and I/O delta columns to the process view, reports 32-bit loaded DLLs for 32-bit processes on Windows 64-bit systems, and lets you view and edit process security descriptors. It also supports Windows Vista.
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What are your system's specifications Vibhor?
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Win NT 4.0 Sp 6a
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That's the operating system software. What are the hardware specifications?
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I don't know much about the hardware.
I can tell Ram - 256 MB & Cpu - 668 MHz
Anything else.
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Vibhor,
How did you get to be asenior member if you can't identify your hardware? :o :o :o :o :o
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Well,
Some people have a field in which they are a master and some are "Jack of all and Master of none". :-*
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That is rather vulgair.
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So Vibhor, did you find the 70% thing yet?
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Thats some old banger of a pc?>>668 MHz
What make model is it .
compaq?
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Yup,
Its a Hp Compaq.
Its 2799 MHz, not a old one.
Nope, it hasn't happened since then. I am waiting for it. :P