Re: Services.exe hogs 99% of CPU time

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Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. I've updated to SP4. The
problem occurred once today (seems to be less often now).

As for Malware or a virus, I've been using Ad-Aware SE from Lavasoft,
and AVG Free Edition from Grisoft. Both report that I'm clean. I didn't
try MULTI_AV yet.

Now I'll try some of the other suggestions.

Robert



David H. Lipman wrote:


> SP 2? You should be using SP4 by now !
>
> First let's determine that it isn't malware. After it is dertermined malware isn't the
> cause, i suggest installing Win2K SP4 then the post Sp4 RollOut.
>
> Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
> http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
>
> To use this utility, perform the following...
> Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
> Choose; Unzip
> Choose; Close
>
> Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
> { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
>
> NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
> FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
>
> C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
> This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
> This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
> The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.
>
> You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
> download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
> needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
> during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
> Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
>
> When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
> file.
>
>
> * * * Please report back your results * * *
>
>
>

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