strange issue appears to be hidden CPU use

LMHmedchem · Jul 27, 2015

Hello,

A few times recently I have noticed the case fans running at higher rate than normal since I wasn't running any applications at the time. Looking at the windows task manager, there were no applications using CPU, yet the performance tab listed CPU use at ~21%. I opened real temp and this also listed current CPU use at ~21%. I looked at the task manager for a minute or two and none of the listed processes show any CPU use at all. I wasn't running any applications at the time, so it was just the startup processes. I have selected the checkbox to list processes from all users. If I shut down and restart, the CPU use goes away. The fans are spinning at normal speed and the task manager lists CPU use at 0-2%.

I also checked my comodo logs and there were not any open connections at all while this was happening.

I decided to run a full set of scans to make sure that there isn't something running that is able to hide itself. As far as I can read the logs and scanner results, the scans didn't find anything. I have attached the zip.

In this particular case, I'm not sure if the scanners finding nothing is reassuring or not.

I am running windows xp professional 32-bit with Comodo ISP 5.12 and a ZoneAlarm z100G firewall router.

If someone can have a peek at the logs to make sure I haven't missed something I would appreciate that. If the logs are clean, any ideas about what may be going on here? Anyone here of something like this before?

LMHmedchem

Kestrel13! · Jul 27, 2015

Not finding any malware in those logs at all. Feel free to post in our software forum about any issues you have!

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strange issue appears to be hidden CPU use

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Attached Files:

scanner_logs.zip

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