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  1. SlimPick

    Run-away svchost.exe process - trojan?

    housecall.trendmicro.com is a good call. I had to drop the bomb on the hard drive and rebuild. I've tried a few firewalls (Kerio and Tiny) but don't like the performance hit. Will have to decide on something. Case closed for me now. Thanks to all. Regards.
  2. SlimPick

    Run-away svchost.exe process - trojan?

    Great responses all. I've run "tasklist /svc" (syar2k3) and see that the offending service is the dreaded RPCSS. I got the PID from Task Manager and "tasklist /m" shows me the dlls for that service as follows: (service name - PID - dlls) svchost.exe 1068 ntdll.dll...
  3. SlimPick

    Run-away svchost.exe process - trojan?

    I appreciate the prompt response, Diogenes10. I ran the scanner which turned up a bunch of spyware cookies but no proggies or anything else to explain the 99% cpu usage of svchost.exe. I'm still trying to get a handle on it. What say ye all? - Slim
  4. SlimPick

    Run-away svchost.exe process - trojan?

    Greetings. This site looks like a great source of info. Hope someone can help me. I have a svchost process consuming 99% of my cpu. Needless to say, this is killing everything else. I've run HijackThis and AVG AV software. I recognize all entries in HJT output. AVG passes clean. No wierd entries...

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