Explorer out of control!!

cack01 · 01-22-04, 12:24 AM

My roomates laptop (win XP) has been acting sluggish lately so he had me take a look at it. I honestly do not have time right now to spend hours trouble shooting, so I'm hoping you guys can help me out.

Anyways, the two times I've checked the task manager, explorer has been using 99% of the cpu, and has been at 170mb and 200mb mem usage.

I had him scan with adaware w/ the latest definitions. Nothing came up. Virus scan is still pending, as I am going to use antivirus.com since I do not know if his norton is updated.

Does this problem ring a bell for anyone???

CrazyP · 01-22-04, 02:35 AM

sounds like a virus to me. panda has a free online antivirus I have used for similar things

Tebore · 01-22-04, 08:05 AM

I hope you disable indexing service. It lagged the hell outta me sometimes.

Oh I forgot to add sometimes Explorer might go bonkers. Try a chkdsk /r and defrag sometimes they solve some of my explorer related problems.

cack01 · 01-22-04, 09:13 PM

Virus scan shows not one virus.
Adaware came up with a couple of cookies.

I have yet to check indexing services. I've never seen anything like this, its like a p2p program is d/l at 200kb/sec only its named explorer.exe . I have yet to look through the run section of the registry, which I plan on doing next.

jrbob · 01-23-04, 09:40 AM

Try soybot search & destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=news

cack01 · 01-23-04, 08:00 PM

OK I checked for errors, defragged, and disabled indexing. If the problem still pops up, I will try spy bot.

01-22-04, 12:24 AM	Thread Starter #1
cack01 Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San diego or UC Davis	Explorer out of control!! My roomates laptop (win XP) has been acting sluggish lately so he had me take a look at it. I honestly do not have time right now to spend hours trouble shooting, so I'm hoping you guys can help me out. Anyways, the two times I've checked the task manager, explorer has been using 99% of the cpu, and has been at 170mb and 200mb mem usage. I had him scan with adaware w/ the latest definitions. Nothing came up. Virus scan is still pending, as I am going to use antivirus.com since I do not know if his norton is updated. Does this problem ring a bell for anyone??? __________________ LianLi PC70 Dual PIII 1.0@1.2 (7.5*160) on ABIT VP6 768 PC-133 Geforce 4 TI4200 310/580 Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum 2x 40 GB Seagate 5400 w/Striping 1x 80 GB Seagate 7200 24X Yamaha CD-RW Sony 520GS 21"
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01-22-04, 02:35 AM	#2
CrazyP Member Join Date: Nov 2002	sounds like a virus to me. panda has a free online antivirus I have used for similar things
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01-22-04, 08:05 AM	#3
Tebore Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Toronto,Canada(I can see you....)	I hope you disable indexing service. It lagged the hell outta me sometimes. Oh I forgot to add sometimes Explorer might go bonkers. Try a chkdsk /r and defrag sometimes they solve some of my explorer related problems. __________________ UMPC: Asus EEE 701(4G) Laptops: Lenovo T60p Servers: IBM XServ Heatware
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01-22-04, 09:13 PM	Thread Starter #4
cack01 Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San diego or UC Davis	Virus scan shows not one virus. Adaware came up with a couple of cookies. I have yet to check indexing services. I've never seen anything like this, its like a p2p program is d/l at 200kb/sec only its named explorer.exe . I have yet to look through the run section of the registry, which I plan on doing next. __________________ LianLi PC70 Dual PIII 1.0@1.2 (7.5*160) on ABIT VP6 768 PC-133 Geforce 4 TI4200 310/580 Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum 2x 40 GB Seagate 5400 w/Striping 1x 80 GB Seagate 7200 24X Yamaha CD-RW Sony 520GS 21"
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01-23-04, 09:40 AM	#5
jrbob Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Billings MT	Try soybot search & destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=news
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01-23-04, 08:00 PM	Thread Starter #6
cack01 Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San diego or UC Davis	OK I checked for errors, defragged, and disabled indexing. If the problem still pops up, I will try spy bot. __________________ LianLi PC70 Dual PIII 1.0@1.2 (7.5*160) on ABIT VP6 768 PC-133 Geforce 4 TI4200 310/580 Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum 2x 40 GB Seagate 5400 w/Striping 1x 80 GB Seagate 7200 24X Yamaha CD-RW Sony 520GS 21"
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