svchost is running at almost %100 cpu usage. Can someone please help?

shankster x · May 10, 2007

HI, I had a problem with my svchost about a month ago. it was running at about %100. My computer did a Microsoft update and the problem was fixed(or so I thought). Now it's doing it again. My laptop is extremely sluggish unless I go into the Task Manager and end the process. I only have 6 svchost processes running( which I didn't think was too many). I have taken the steps given to remove or fix the problem. Nothing has worked. Now I have read the instructions given and installed HJT in my program files and renamed it. Can someone please take a look at the attached file and tell me if they recognize something that shouldn't be there. I really appreciate anyone's help in this matter. THANK YOU !

chaslang · May 10, 2007

Many times when svchost is eating up CPU time, it is not due to malware. They only way for us to be able to exclude malware is for you to run our full malware cleaning procedure given below. HijackThis logs are not adequate by themselves. And your HJT log is even a prime example of that statement. Your log shows no problems at all. If I went totally based on your HJT log, I would already be sending you off to the Software Forum. That could still happen, but if it does, at least you will know you are malware free.

Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, renaming, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

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svchost is running at almost %100 cpu usage. Can someone please help?

shankster x Private E-2

Attached Files:

hijackthis.log

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