win 7 running 100% processing power

I have microsoft win 7 enterprise edition with intel core 2 4400 2.0 gh processor w/ 2 gigs ram I checked the task manager for processes that take alot of processing power. One process stood out in the crowd svchost.exe description is host process for windows services located in c/windows/system32

Im not sure if this is causing it or something else.

i just ended the process and processing went down to 8 % usage instead of 100 %

svchost is a generic process name used by a variety of legitimate and non-legitimate programs. i would check for viruses. you could also try "process explorer" (you will have to download) to see if it can identify the program(s) useng svchost processes.

yea, i have like 10 svchost.exe in task manager and a bunch of other processes that i need to get rid of . I followed the process to the folder that it orignated from and i did a virus scan with eset and SAS and came back clean. I guess im going to do a whole pc scan with both av programs first in safe mode then in regular windows mode. If i cant find anything then ill run process explorer

Edited by BakedDaily, 31 January 2011 - 10:51 AM.

Download Process Explorer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Unzip ProcessExplorer.zip, and double click on procexp.exe to run the program.
Click on View > Select Colunms.
In addition to already pre-selected options, make sure, the Command Line is selected, and press OK.
Go File>Save As, and save the report as Procexp.txt.
Attach the file to your next reply.

Here it is , I done few virus scans which only came up with finding cookies . you can see were the svchost.exe is still running around 75k now. But i already have killed the first svchost and it made it restart i guess. When i do that processing power is back to normal should i run process explorer before i kill it?

Edited by BakedDaily, 31 January 2011 - 10:29 PM.

Actually, RAM usage shouldn't be of any interest.
What matters is CPU usage, which is quite normal with System Idle Process (CPU NOT used) at 89.23%.

Does your computer experience any visible issues?

The only visible issue i see is when that cpu is maxxed out everything is slow it was at 100% until i killed the first process
i have a windows sidebar that tells you what % of cpu is used of each core and both cores were maxxed out

Edited by BakedDaily, 31 January 2011 - 11:08 PM.

With the information you have provided I believe you will need help from the malware removal team. I would like you to start a new thread and post a DDS log HERE and include a link to this thread. Please make sure that you read the information about getting started before you start your thread.

It would be helpful if you post a note here once you have completed the steps in the guide and have started your topic in malware removal. Good luck and be patient. Help is on the way!

Malware topic here: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic376938.html

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