CPU @ 100% at start up

namaimo · 29-05-2004 5:32pm #1

hey all, have problem with my CPU at 100% at start up. I have opened task manager and looked at the processes taking place and it seems that services.exe is taking up a lot of CPU percentage. However when i go to end this process windows tells me it is a critical process and wont let me end it.

What can i do? it making my computer horribly slow.
Im running XP.

thanks

joePC · 29-05-2004 5:45pm

hummmmmmmmmmm,

OK type "msconfig" in the run dialog, click startup & disable all, reboot see if this solves your problem, then I would do a spyware scan & virus scan.

Thanks JoePC

parasite · 29-05-2004 5:47pm

kill rasautou, hpotdd01 & hpztsb08 look very dodgy, i'd say you have some sort of browser hijack, trojan whatever
run adaware, spybot s&d, hijackthis ! etc ...

there should be a sticky telling people to run all these progs before starting a thread

namaimo · 30-05-2004 6:04pm

downloaded AVG and when i run it it finds a virus but then the program ends. any ideas hwo i could run AVG and it not abruptly ending?

Explosive_Cornflake · 30-05-2004 6:26pm

Looks like sasser or something. I re-installed xp pro and went online nefore putting up a firewall and it was similar to that. Lookmn for stinger.exe, it sorts out a few of those worms. It's a small download.
Run command.com
go to windows\system32
and run netstat -a

if you've a lot of crap showing, thats a worm then.

Also, run services.msc, and disable SSDP discovery service, it takes up a lot of RAM sometimes.

BigEejit · 30-05-2004 6:47pm

could be hp drivers those two ..... go to housecall.trendmicro.com and do the free online scan .....

namaimo · 30-05-2004 7:06pm

got AVG working so its busy doing its thing...out of 43,000 or so files 13,000 or so are infected. not my computer by the way but a friends.:eek:

CPU @ 100% at start up

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