Posted: 3/6/2013 12:07:08 PM EDT
This computer I built is having some issues. I am guessing I have a virus of somesort but not really sure. It's an i5 2500k processor with 8GB RAM and it is running at 50%-75% CPU usage and 97%-99% memory usage, that I know is not normal. Here is a screen shot of the two processes taking up everything:
I ran a scan with MSE but it quit without me prompting it too, so I just shut the computer down. Earlier I ran a scan with spybot search and destroy and got a but of little things that I cleared out. |
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Microsft Security essentials in use? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Forefrontclientgeneral/thread/8ee4a53e-2ae7-4e91-9ac9-173ee3b12650/ uninstall that shit and install avast free instead. You can use sysinternals to determine what else might be jacking things up. Posting your OS version and other details will help us, help you. |
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That's the Microsoft Security Essentials executable. Not a threat. It might be running a malware/virus scan in the background. Ok I probably took that screen shot when I was trying to run that, wasn't sure what that was. But it would end without me. I have Windows 7 pro 64bit |
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Microsft Security essentials in use? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Forefrontclientgeneral/thread/8ee4a53e-2ae7-4e91-9ac9-173ee3b12650/ uninstall that shit and install avast free instead. You can use sysinternals to determine what else might be jacking things up. Posting your OS version and other details will help us, help you. Besides the OS what else would you want? |
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You wouldn't happen to have Acronis TrueImage on this machine would you? No Lately I have been having issues with my connection on that computer as well. We moved the computer to our den, our modem is in the living room so I bought a wireless card for the desktop, connection seemed to be good. Then I would loose it, but when I moved the computer out a bit I had connection so I thought maybe the antenna's were not getting a good connection, so I bought an antenna that I could put on the desk. The connection is full bars, but I loose connection consistantly. I'll even loose the network entirely but yet my phone, tablet, and laptop can connect to the wireless with no issue. I almost think it's a bad card, but now I have this issue so maybe they are related? Also this computer should have no problem doing what I was doing, I was putting some home video's together to make a dvd and it was freezing constantly. |
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Whatever DllHost loaded on the second line is eating 6 1/4 GB of your RAM. Try shutting that process down.
Best to look at task manager immediately after a cold boot. Even better if you unplug the box from the wall for 30-45 seconds or so, then plug it back in and then boot. Anything (like some virii or keyloggers) that can run outside of the operating system won't be killed by a restart. That's why the extremely cold boot is necessary. System Idle Process will always be running. It's the routine that refreshes memory, and basically handles the housekeeping Windows needs. Also look at your page usage. With 8GB RAM you shouldn't have very much paging. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Microsft Security essentials in use? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Forefrontclientgeneral/thread/8ee4a53e-2ae7-4e91-9ac9-173ee3b12650/ uninstall that shit and install avast free instead. You can use sysinternals to determine what else might be jacking things up. Posting your OS version and other details will help us, help you. Besides the OS what else would you want? OS and any other apps you are running. For now, kill the process for MSSE and see if it stops the high CPU usage. If it does, either troubleshoot why its staying so high or replace it with something better, like avast. Sysinternals process explorer (free from MS) can help you perform more troubleshooting if you still need to tie processes to system usage. |
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The Dllhost.exe file that's taking up 6gb of memory is definitely suspect. Everybody has their favorite solution. First thing I like to do is run Windows Defender Offline. If possible, use a different computer to create a CD or USB bootable version of Windows Defender. Just download this and run it, it will create the bootable CD or USB drive for you: http://windows.microsoft.com/is-is/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline I like Windows Defender Offline, since it boots up off a cd or usb drive, the virus on your system never loads into memory and Defender has complete access to the files on the drive. |
| Well I scanned with malwarebytes and it showed up with nothing, so that is the third antivirus ran with nothing major showing. Now the problem went away so IDK. I will keep posted if it comes back, I'm still having wireless issues, I'm guessing a bad card. I will probably RMA it |
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When in doubt, combofix that shit. |
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You ever blow one up with that? They warn you up and down, but I've never had it harm a machine. |