100% usage, no evidence

corblimey · 2008-07-17 08:37:09

My home machine is taking an absolute age to start up and even after starting, cpu usage is pegged at 100%, but as far as I can make out, the total cpu usage of all running apps is around 10%. Last time this happened, it was a nasty spyware attack but: 1. There was more evidence of this attack last time; pholmes.exe,…

17-07-2008 09:37AM

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My home machine is taking an absolute age to start up and even after starting, cpu usage is pegged at 100%, but as far as I can make out, the total cpu usage of all running apps is around 10%. Last time this happened, it was a nasty spyware attack but:

1. There was more evidence of this attack last time; pholmes.exe, random popups, etc
2. I've installed absolutely nothing on this machine since I cleaned it up.
3. I've got SpywareGuard running

I've left it running an ad-aware scan in safe mode before leaving it this morning, but I just wonder is 100% cpu usage with no evidence of such a pretty sure sign that I've been infected with something?

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#2 23-07-2008 10:42AM

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I take it you have checked the taskmanager to see which processes are using up the resources?

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