Ping.exe is taking up 100% cpu

clivej

I see that ping.exe is taking up all my resources when using internet explorer. I have searched with google but it not giving me any way to get rid of it.

anyone know how to stop this????

abouttobebanned

Stop using Internet explorer.

clivej

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Stop using Internet explorer.

NOT THE answer i'm looking for.

If you don't know the answer then please post elsewhere.

White Wolf Airsoft

Honestly he is Right stop Using IE it really is bad and is quite open to viruses and uses up LOTS of CPU usage. I would HIGHLY suggest Google Chrome

Spacedog

-Backup your data (don't forget data inside programs like e-mail, calendar, favourite sites, savegames, desktop, app data etc)
-Backup your network driver and internet settings
-Format your computer
-Partition your hard drive like so...
-C: First 40GB
-D: all remaining space
-Reinstall Windows
-Reinstall Drivers
-Reinstall Office
-Reinstall common apps (use this to save some time)
-Reinstall other apps (exclude apps that want to install crap on your machine and toolbars in your browser)
-Install Firefox and use the 'adblock plus' plugin in 'add-ons'
-Configure control panel to your preferences.
-Apply all updates and patches from Windows Update (about 5 reboots needed)
-Put your data on the Drive, independent of your programs.
-Most importantly: Make an image of your new C: drive using a partition imaging tool on a boot CD, like ghost or partimage, and store the image on the drive.

Now you can download all the crap you like. watch horse porn, download pirate games from limewire, open spam .exes to see the cute cat pictures. You can run your machine into the ground with malware, safe in the knowledge that you can restore your perfect, safe, clean Windows setup in about 10 minutes any time you want to log into AIB.ie

yoyo

White Wolf Airsoft wrote: »

Honestly he is Right stop Using IE it really is bad and is quite open to viruses and uses up LOTS of CPU usage. I would HIGHLY suggest Google Chrome

Chrome is spyware so would happily belong in this forum also :rolleyes: . If you want to use Chrome use SR Iron which is Chrome without the Google tracking imbuilt.
Anyways ping.exe is nothing to do with Internet Explorer (which is iexplore.exe) and sounds like some kind of virus. Run a scan with Malwarebytes Anti Malware, Super Anti spyware, then run a Eset online Scanner test and see what happens.

Nick

uch

Spacedog wrote: »

-Backup your data (don't forget data inside programs like e-mail, calendar, favourite sites, savegames, desktop, app data etc)
-Backup your network driver and internet settings
-Format your computer
-Partition your hard drive like so...
-C: First 40GB
-D: all remaining space
-Reinstall Windows
-Reinstall Drivers
-Reinstall Office
-Reinstall common apps (use this to save some time)
-Reinstall other apps (exclude apps that want to install crap on your machine and toolbars in your browser)
-Install Firefox and use the 'adblock plus' plugin in 'add-ons'
-Configure control panel to your preferences.
-Apply all updates and patches from Windows Update (about 5 reboots needed)
-Put your data on the Drive, independent of your programs.
-Most importantly: Make an image of your new C: drive using a partition imaging tool on a boot CD, like ghost or partimage, and store the image on the drive.

Now you can download all the crap you like. watch horse porn, download pirate games from limewire, open spam .exes to see the cute cat pictures. You can run your machine into the ground with malware, safe in the knowledge that you can restore your perfect, safe, clean Windows setup in about 10 minutes any time you want to log into AIB.ie

Thats an awful lot of work to delete a bit of spyware.:eek:

Just scan with Spybot search and destroy or malware bytes and you should be grand.

Hijpo

Will he need to end the process or start in safe mode before he scans?

Spacedog

uch wrote: »

Thats an awful lot of work to delete a bit of spyware.:eek:

Just scan with Spybot search and destroy or malware bytes and you should be grand.

It is a robust solution for managing a computer system in a safe and reliable way. Most people throw perfectly good computers in the bin and buy new ones, only to do as much, if not more work, to move all their data and programs from the old to the new.

Take the time to do this and it will save you a lot of pain over the lifetime of the computer. you might learn something along the way son.

uch

Spacedog wrote: »

It is a robust solution for managing a computer system in a safe and reliable way. Most people throw perfectly good computers in the bin and buy new ones, only to do as much, if not more work, to move all their data and programs from the old to the new.

Take the time to do this and it will save you a lot of pain over the lifetime of the computer. you might learn something along the way son.

Thanks for that Da, I wouldn't have a clue about these things seeing as I'd only been working in Technical support for 8 years and now an Analyst for the past 4, stop talkin through your hole.

Spacedog

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Will_H

Clive - did you run MalwareBytes? (see sticky about virus/malware).

It's nothing to do with your browser btw. Download & run MalwareBytes. Also run TFC....let us know how you get on....

Somnus

Hi, just thought I'd bump this cause I had this problem from last night.

I had run MSE, Malwarebytes and Superantispyware which didn't pick it up. All thought there was a Trojan so I'm thinking it may be linked (Usually only find some harmless spyware)

Anyway, I found a guy on youtube who said to use tdss killer.

I ran it and it sorted out the problem. Hopefully it will work for you

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnZyqlb3vaY

Direct download link from video http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.zip

clivej

I'll try that link out now. I see that is only come up when a broswer is in use including FireFox.

BINGO it's gone. Thanks go out to Dr.Poca for a great link