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Windows XP Home
80 GB memory
256 MB RAM
Anyway, I have a very smooth running laptop. However, recently I noticed it slowing down and such. I ran Ad Aware to kill off some spyware (which MS's Antispyware program did NOT catch, it stinx) and my NAV 2004 and then rebooted. I then hit the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo to bring up the CPU use meter and just watched to see what's going on.
Something is chipping away at the CPU usage, at one point it took my poor laptop to 100% CPU use at times, when it's just sitting doing nothing. I noticed a couple of times after coming out of hibernation that I get the message: "1 program running." I never leave programs running before I log off or hibernate, so there is a ghost in the machine, if you will. What kind of program could this be? I'm almost CERTAIN its some sort of spyware, or maybe some dumb virus immune to NAV? Have others experienced this, and if so, what steps might I take to reclaim my hard drive as mine again?
BTW: I've caught some program running once something like ccAPP or some such.
I appreciate any and every suggestion given here, thanks.
80 GB memory
256 MB RAM
Anyway, I have a very smooth running laptop. However, recently I noticed it slowing down and such. I ran Ad Aware to kill off some spyware (which MS's Antispyware program did NOT catch, it stinx) and my NAV 2004 and then rebooted. I then hit the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo to bring up the CPU use meter and just watched to see what's going on.
Something is chipping away at the CPU usage, at one point it took my poor laptop to 100% CPU use at times, when it's just sitting doing nothing. I noticed a couple of times after coming out of hibernation that I get the message: "1 program running." I never leave programs running before I log off or hibernate, so there is a ghost in the machine, if you will. What kind of program could this be? I'm almost CERTAIN its some sort of spyware, or maybe some dumb virus immune to NAV? Have others experienced this, and if so, what steps might I take to reclaim my hard drive as mine again?
BTW: I've caught some program running once something like ccAPP or some such.
I appreciate any and every suggestion given here, thanks.