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Virus Removed, but PING.exe High CPU Usage High PING.exe cpu usage after Virus removal

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 11:30 AM

I have recently been infected by the Windows 7 Security Virus, and after a long struggle by myself (Since I couldn't run ANY .exe....) I finally got rid of it. Now however, I have another issue. The computer is running strange, Firefox uses about 250,000 K at times, and even worse, PING.exe is running up to 1,250,000 of memory. My CPU runs at 100% at times. I've been getting a "Display driver has stopped responding but has recovered" message about twice a day now and Firefox seems to hang more often than usual. This hasn't happened before, only after I got rid of the first virus. I scanned my computer with Mbam, its clean now, Spybot S&D, its clean too. When I used Process Explorer, PING came from one of the svchost.exe's thats running. Currently there are 11 svchost.exe processes running. In all, my computer is pretty messed up, and I was wondering if you could help me get it running well again!

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 03:21 PM

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 07:26 PM

Thank you, I have started a new topic at the requested place.

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