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Runaway svchost.exe
Hi;
Over the weekend I got hit with the lsas.blaster virus. I used malwarebytes, SUPERAntiSpyware, and CCleaner and it appeared to remove the infection. However, my pc is now a snail. I have an instance of svchost.exe that is just churning - using up 93-99% cpu. Killing the process forces a restart. Killing the child processes using Process Explorer totally freezes the machine. When I start up in Safe mode, that instance disappears. I'm stumped. How can I find out what is looping and stop it from calling svchost.exe? I'd really hate to have to wipe the drive and do a reinstall but I'm starting to think that it might be my only alternative. TIA for any help. gjw -- George J. Wallace |
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Runaway svchost.exe
Hi;
I found the answer. It was a memory leak problem. Thanks anyway. gjw "George J. Wallace" wrote in message ... Hi; Over the weekend I got hit with the lsas.blaster virus. I used malwarebytes, SUPERAntiSpyware, and CCleaner and it appeared to remove the infection. However, my pc is now a snail. I have an instance of svchost.exe that is just churning - using up 93-99% cpu. Killing the process forces a restart. Killing the child processes using Process Explorer totally freezes the machine. When I start up in Safe mode, that instance disappears. I'm stumped. How can I find out what is looping and stop it from calling svchost.exe? I'd really hate to have to wipe the drive and do a reinstall but I'm starting to think that it might be my only alternative. TIA for any help. gjw -- George J. Wallace |
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