tcpsvcs.exe eating up 50% of CPU usage!!!

[Guest]

Greetings... Running XP Pro SP2, I find that tcpsvcs.exe is using up 50% of
my CPU... My wife's computer (same OS) is on an ethernet link, but is
inactive... I have a DSL connection on USB. My 1394 and Wireless net
connections are disabled.

All have File & Printer Sharing, TCPIP and Client for MS Networks enabled.

Also... Why is it that no process can use more than 50% of the CPU? Seems a
shame for me to be waiting for Explorer or Photoshop for 5 minutes when 49%
of my CPU is sitting idle. There is a setting for this on the MAC, but I
haven't found it on WinXP-SP2 yet.

Thanks mucho

 

[DanS]

=?Utf-8?B?Q2hhcmxlcyBTdHJvdXNz?= <Charles
(e-mail address removed)> wrote in

Greetings... Running XP Pro SP2, I find that tcpsvcs.exe is using up
50% of my CPU... My wife's computer (same OS) is on an ethernet link,
but is inactive... I have a DSL connection on USB. My 1394 and
Wireless net connections are disabled.

All have File & Printer Sharing, TCPIP and Client for MS Networks
enabled.

heres a link at symantec that describes a trojan that uses that file
name.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.egghead.
html

also, ms has a service by the same name. check to see if that service is
starting at startup.

a google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tcpsvcs.exe shows
other people have had this issue as well after install sp2, most of them
using an AV program named.......VOD32 (?), MOD32 (?), somehting like
that.

typical responses, run a spybot scan, an adaware scan, and full virus
scan. do cwshredder, and run a HijackThis! scan.

Also... Why is it that no process can use more than 50% of the CPU?
Seems a shame for me to be waiting for Explorer or Photoshop for 5
minutes when 49% of my CPU is sitting idle. There is a setting for
this on the MAC, but I haven't found it on WinXP-SP2 yet.

i've never seen this behavior before, maybe sp2 (?)(i haven't done sp2
yet), i doubt it. i just started rar'ing a dvd image and winrar never
went UNDER 90% cpu use.