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HELP ME!! Memory Leak? Virus? Help!
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Posted by: Elijah5
Possible Memory Leak?
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I recently formatted my hard drive on my laptop, and started FRESH. I have my D Drive mostly used for storage, and my C: drive as the main drive for Programs. D is in Fat32 format, C: is in NTFS. I recently am running into what seems to me to be numerous svchost.exe openings and they seem to be sucking up a lot of memory, even when I'm not online (disconnected from internet).
I have run Spybot Search & Destroy, and Ad-Aware SE (which I keep up to date) and have removed any problems. I have run an online scan at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ and I have no viruses detected. I have done a full scan using my Norton Anti-Virus, which I keep up to date, and nothing. I have done all my Windows XP Service Pack updates (including SP2) and Critical and Security updates for all application software.
It just seems to be spiking, my CPU usage 38%-78%-100% and the only thing I can think of, after shutting down all unused applications, is that it may be a memory leak somewhere.
Any ideas? Here is my log attached....
Posted by: redwench
2-3 firewalls and an AV will use up resources. plus any services you have running. several svchost is quite normal. unless you have 1G ram, and a 3.2GHz cpu, spiking is quite normal. if you dont have any performance issues, you can probably ignore it since nothing has turned up on the scans.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
What kind of laptop is it? In your device manager, do you have any exclamation points by the hard drive controller or anywhere? If for some reason you don't have DMA mode enabled, it will increase CPU usage quite a bit. Considering it's a fresh install, it's worth a look.
And Red is right. Software firewalls are CPU hogs. So if you have one up, it's probably causing a lot of it. A virus scanner set to aggressive settings can also use up more CPU power.
Oh, and you might want to check out this handy little utility. It's called the Startup control panel and it's simple and useful to use for controlling what's loaded at bootup. It saves the entries so nothing really gets permanantly deleted unless you want it to.
It's at http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
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