Help again!!!!

albertross_2

The easiest way is to write it down, and type it in, we just need to know processes that are taking up more than 10% of the processor time. Also, some indication of what is happening would help, otherwise this is going to turn into a 5 page thread, at the rate the site is performing, it will take all week to resolve.

Are you confident that all your spyware issues are resolved, and that the PC is clean from viruses and spyware?

Personally, have never used prevx, as I prefer a PC with as little running on it as possible - a virus scanner, a firewall, that's it.

Anti spyware scanners can either be resident, or on demand.
I use microsoft anti-spyware and Ad-aware, (both of which I run manually, rather than have resident).

Having too much anti-spyware stuff running all the time, could affect the performance of the PC. Some of the popular anti-spyware stuff is bloatware in my opinion, and for that reason, I won't use it.

Maybe someone else with experience of Prevx could advise on the performance hit (if any).

Rikki

I found this thread usefull and i have decided to try and work out what is using the most of my cpu time. It has neen going for 20 mins now, How long should it take? Its the only thing running apart from mse.

itsbeef

top 4 on task manager were:

iexplore.exe 98
svchost.exe 02
explorer.exe. 01
system.exe 01

Toxteth_OGrady

albertross wrote:

Maybe someone else with experience of Prevx could advise on the performance hit (if any).

Negligible. Mem 7.6 Meg, CPU % showing 00 in Task Manager.

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TOG

albertross_2

is that iexplore 98% constant and on this site only (this site is experiencing tech difficulties), 5 mins to load a page for me..

Is it still 98% on google?

Toxteth_OGrady

itsbeef wrote:

top 4 on task manager were:

iexplore.exe 98
svchost.exe 02
explorer.exe. 01
system.exe 01

System.exe is a Trojan and definitely bad news. Your IE should only be using 1 - 2 % max. The 98% may be symptomatic of the Trojan infection or it may be something else such as a BHO hijack.

I'll google for system.exe clean-up and post back. In the meantime, suggest you stop using IE and switch to Opera or Firefox.

:cool:

TOG

itsbeef

yeah constant between 95 and 98 on google

Toxteth_OGrady

Infection payload details for system.exe here.

Removal instructions to follow.

Are you sure you don't want to format and start over?

:cool:

TOG

intel

System is the old W32/Colevo@MM virus Im sure of it.. and of the variants.

Download file first from vil.nai

Im sure http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ should kill it.. Turn off System restore
restart PC run a stinger scan (thats the link) then after scan turn on Restore then
restart PC.....

Toxteth_OGrady

My googling tells me it's the Mitgeider.H proxy trojan.

Manual removal instructions here but a scan with any decent up-to-date AV product should fix it.

:cool:

TOG