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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 06:18 PM
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Default pc seems to be working overtime

how do i go about finding out whats running
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 06:27 PM
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Ctrl+Alt+Del....

Task Manager

(If it's windows)
Going mental is usually disk activity because something has used all the memory and the system has to write to your swap/page file on disk.

Click the memory column to sort by usage and identify what's the top.
Usually, wouldn't expect to see anything over 150,000k
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:37 PM
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Same thing happened to me recently. Turned out to be a piece of malicious software 'malware', which was identified by using the following...

It wouldn't hurt to go and get this free anti-malware program which will scan for a remove any nasty software:

Malwarebytes.org
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