After SP2 wauclt.exe takes up 100% cpu

[Lex]

Hi has anyone had this?
After SP2 install, the wauclt.exe process (Automatic Updates) takes up
100% CPU-time, the system slows down to an unusable speed and if I kill
the process it just starts up again.
I can disable it with msconfig (services), but then the WindowsUpdate site
doesn't work.
If I leave it 'running' and use windowsupdate (which takes an hour or
something because of the high cpu load), the windowsupdate applet thingy
crashes with an unknown error. So something is very wrong here...
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Alex

PS. System:
AMD Athlon64 3200+
MSI K8T neo
1GB RAM (TwinMOS)
vga: ATi RADEON 9800

--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

[Will Denny]

Hi

If you have spelt the filename correctly, please have a look at the
following article:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gaobot.ajd.html

--

Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups


"Lex" > wrote in message
...
> Hi has anyone had this?
> After SP2 install, the wauclt.exe process (Automatic Updates) takes up
> 100% CPU-time, the system slows down to an unusable speed and if I kill
> the process it just starts up again.
> I can disable it with msconfig (services), but then the WindowsUpdate site
> doesn't work.
> If I leave it 'running' and use windowsupdate (which takes an hour or
> something because of the high cpu load), the windowsupdate applet thingy
> crashes with an unknown error. So something is very wrong here...
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex
>
> PS. System:
> AMD Athlon64 3200+
> MSI K8T neo
> 1GB RAM (TwinMOS)
> vga: ATi RADEON 9800
>
> --
> Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

[Mary Sauer]

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_AGOBOT.WR
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gaobot.ajd.html
--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://www.msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
"Lex" > wrote in message ...
> Hi has anyone had this?
> After SP2 install, the wauclt.exe process (Automatic Updates) takes up 100%
> CPU-time, the system slows down to an unusable speed and if I kill the process it
> just starts up again.
> I can disable it with msconfig (services), but then the WindowsUpdate site doesn't
> work.
> If I leave it 'running' and use windowsupdate (which takes an hour or something
> because of the high cpu load), the windowsupdate applet thingy crashes with an
> unknown error. So something is very wrong here...
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex
>
> PS. System:
> AMD Athlon64 3200+
> MSI K8T neo
> 1GB RAM (TwinMOS)
> vga: ATi RADEON 9800
>
> --
> Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

[Lex]

sorry, wuauclt.exe is the process' name, it's not a virus, my Norton is
always up-to-date and I just did a full scan and nothing was found.
Nobody with the same prob.?

Thanks,
Alex

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:23:35 +0200, Lex > wrote:

> Hi has anyone had this?
> After SP2 install, the wauclt.exe process (Automatic Updates) takes up
> 100% CPU-time, the system slows down to an unusable speed and if I kill
> the process it just starts up again.
> I can disable it with msconfig (services), but then the WindowsUpdate
> site doesn't work.
> If I leave it 'running' and use windowsupdate (which takes an hour or
> something because of the high cpu load), the windowsupdate applet thingy
> crashes with an unknown error. So something is very wrong here...
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex
>
> PS. System:
> AMD Athlon64 3200+
> MSI K8T neo
> 1GB RAM (TwinMOS)
> vga: ATi RADEON 9800
>



--
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/