Question about 100% CPU usage.

[Ragnarhox]

Ok...i have this problem with my computer that only happens when i am online, sometimes. I havent been able to go to any sites because sometimes my cpu usage goes to 100%. at first i thought it was a virus, trojan, or worm...but after running sweeps with Spy sweeper, norton, Spybot S&D. and the microsoftantispyware beta...and found nothing(at least nothing that was causing the problem. But i had Task Manager open before i went online to see what was causing this problem...and it says that svchost.exe (SYSTEM) is taking up around 90 CPU causing me to run at 100%. so why the hell is svchost.exe taking up so much cpu? and what does svchost.exe do? thank you for any help.

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http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/

There ya go. Handels execute proccess for DLL's.

[Lycshiftz]

svchost.exe is spyware if I remember right. Its a person who connects to your IP address and eats up your bandwidth.

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svchost.exe is spyware if I remember right. Its a person who connects to your IP address and eats up your bandwidth.

Read the link I provided. Its far from spyware.

[Lycshiftz]

I know the link you provided. I used to have a guy connecting to my computer under a program called svchost.exe.

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I know the link you provided. I used to have a guy connecting to my computer under a program called svchost.exe.

there are viruses that use svchost to execute themselves but the process itself is not a virus.

[Ragnarhox]

Thank you sinner...but one more question...i just got a Error Report for "erase,e_36148.exe" and ive seen this error report before too...any idea wtf it is?


Nvm...w32.spybot.worm from Norton just popped up to saying it blocked it...and i could have swore i got rid of that before..

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~closed

Problem solved. No furthur discussion required.