• Computer running at "100% CPU" Ridiculously slow
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I don't know what the hell I did, but my computer is now unbelievably slow or sometimes just freezes up altogether. Now it's not a bad computer, it's not slow normally, just all of a sudden it's like this. I ctrl-alt-delete and at the bottom it has that "CPU usage:xxxxx" thing there, and right now it says 100%. Usually it fluctuates (as is normal) up and down a lot, but ever since my computer started acting up it's been stuck at 100%. I look at all the processes, and I have like 6 svchosts all at 5k. Only one of them actually shuts down the computer with that 60 second countdown. I'm apparently computer illiterate, so I don't really know where to even start troubleshooting, but that was the first thing that looked weird to me. Another thing, after a quick glance at all my processes, was I had an abnormally large number of processes at 5k-6k, and some of them are named things like "JBJWKAhgAJGJ.exe" and whatnot. Microsoft security essentials, the closest thing I have to an antivirus, started flipping out over an executable in the "startmenu\startup" folder so I'm thinking that could be it, but it hasn't popped up since so I don't know where exacty it is. It too is named something along the lines of "BJKAJWthakjbhKJH.exe" Help...my computer is hardly usable at the moment.
Look at whats using the most prossesor cycles, not the most memory. Sort the "CPU" column by descending.
Well that's actually incredibly helpful, as I had stupidly always assumed that column was entirely 00. MSE popped back up about the "Srvklw32.exe" which let me know where it was. Went to it, deleted it, and instantly my computer stopped acting up. I guess that was the problem. Yup, just confirmed. Srvklw32.exe is malware. Probably should've taken note of the filename MSE was having trouble with earlier, and then just used google.
Be sure to scan more often and watch your process list sobthis doesn't occur again :v:
According to Google, "Srvklw32.exe" is a known worm, you may want to do an anti virus/anti rootkit sweep just to be sure your in the clear.
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