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Can anyone help discover what is wrong - what started out as an annoying bug is now beginning to impeed work and oddly is occuring on another brand new system.

The CPU rails to 100% at random times. THe first system is a Dell M170 laptop. It picks a random process and runs it to 100%- where I can only set the priority to low and at least shut the system down. If I kill the process it jumps tothe next active process and so on... the process that it occurs on freezes and I can not use it.

If this was not bad enough - I had planned to wipe the computer and try again (I have run low level memory tests - no issue) - but now the next computer I want to use is doing it now too. It has a dual core - and only one of the cores rail to 100% - a process only shows 50% - but it is klocked and does the same thing.

I suspect it might be a bad driver - since both systems have an NVidia cards... but I am stumped and exhausted searching for resolutions.
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Re: CPU rails to 100% - reviving an old post previously found on forum.

Truthfully, it sounds like a virus to me. And like most people, you have your array of Mcafee/Ewido, etc.

However, those don't catch nearly everything. SO, I would recommend ya repost in the Virus forum.

THanks.
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Definately sounds like a virus or spyware. Try starting the machine in safe mode and see if the problem still occurs, also download and scan with escan you get a 30 day trial and its much better than macafee or norton - also try spybot and adaware there free and very good too. also go to msconfig and diasable all startup programs. Let me know your results.:lol:
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also go to msconfig and diasable all startup programs.
This wouldn't do anything if the virus was hidden in teh Sys32 folder

The best thing to do would be to post a HijackThis in the Virus forum, and have somebody look at it there.

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and scan with escan you get a 30 day trial and its much better than macafee or norton - also try spybot and adaware there free and very good too.
Agreed for the most part. Mcafee is a very good antivirus, but like every program, it doesnt catch everything. Malware-wise, Ewido and Adaware are the best. Online scans-- Kasperiky (sp?) and Panda Active scan are the top in that cagetory.

What my point in the above post is that, no matter what spyware-protection programs ya have, they won't catch everything. Therefore, a HJT log is the best to do.

Good luck
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