shunty

over the last couple of days, poss a week, have noticed that windows explorer, searches, run commands, task manager etc have not been responding, then all of a sudden ALL the windows come alive at once. I put it down to our remote software as it eats cpu time, but it's on mine as well & other engineers when working locally.
Myself & one of the other engineers think its virus/trojan related.
can't see any naughty processes running.

any ideas???

shunty

druddle

I have noticed that with bearshare and ie on my home PC when they both run they hog masses of CPU time (noticed as temp was 54 deg :eek ).

I ran a full virus scan and a trojan was found that launches some porno windows randomly. Cleared it out and IE is ok, but Bearshare is still playing up. I didnt install SaveNow or any other components so will lookinto it further later.

Dave

Crispin

BearShare is Spyware unfortunately....thats why it hogs your CPU time.....


Shunty - I've noticed this, do your explorer windows hang too? I'm going to check it out tonight...

There are commands to hide processes from the tasklist on all platforms, so you need a process viewer that shows em all.....

http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm

It'll show you hidden processes as well.

shunty

thanks Chrispin - I am using reg & file monitors, definetly something virus/spyware related this....
be careful out there shareware peeps

ps - just trying the process viewer now

shunty

[Edited by shunty - 3/15/2002 5:11:23 PM]

shunty

ehem, cough wheres Jack Clark??
calling Jack, come in Jack....over

shunty

shunty

just unplugged my network cable...hey presto everything back to normal.
don't you just love large networks, that narrows it down a bit then
come back 3.11 & workgroups, filing cabinets etc

shunty