100 % CPU Usage on internet connectivety

[rajiv juneja]

Hi,
I use a wireless landphone connection to connect to internet.

My problem is that most of the times(approx 60-70% times) I connect to
internet my CPU Usage goes upto 100% due to which my internet connection
speed and other processing gets affected considerably. Sometimes this
problem occurs a few minutes after connectivety and sometimes even later.

On checking it thru task manager I see that a process called svchost is
consuming about 90-95% of the CPU Usage.

This problem persists even after i go offline and even if i logoff and logon
again. Only when i restart the computer the CPU Usage gets back to normal.

I have a feeling that my anti virus has to do something with this but am not
sure. By the way I am using symantec anti virus corporate edition 8.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Rajiv

 

[Eugene Taylor]

You might want to install and run adaware and/or spybot. This could be a
spyware issue, also I would download and install zonealarm or some other
firewall software.

 

[rajiv juneja]

I am already using sywares and trojan removers like xoftspy, spybot, adwareX
frequently and am having no problems whatsoever.

 

[Eugene Taylor]

I would enable network monitoring and check the network and see if you are
actually putting out packets. If so you could run ethereal and see exactly
what is going out and where it is going http://www.ethereal.com/

 

[Guest]

I would enable network monitoring and check the network and see if you are
actually putting out packets. If so you could run ethereal and see exactly
what is going out and where it is going http://www.ethereal.com/

 

[Guest]

I spent days trying to solve the same problem. I posted the problem on
ExpertsExchange and after running all of the Adware and SpyBot type programs
the problem was finally solved by downloading winsockxpfix from
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html, running it, and rebooting.
While this is shown as an XP program it runs (and works) on Win2K. This
program re-orders the winsock stack.

 

[rajiv juneja]

thanx for your advice on using network monitor.will do.

I also tried some troubleshhoting myself and found that svchost is actually
an exe file located
in %windir%/system32 directory and that some services like 'RPC', 'network
connections'and
'Removable Storage' use this file as there 'path to executable' (which i
found after opening properties
dlg box of respective services in services tool of computer management).

And coinidentally during my internet connectivety RPC service stops quite
frequently which I have to
start manually. But the CPU Usage does not lessen even after restarting this
service.

But apart from this I am still not able to make out what exactly is going
on.


And yes I forgot to mention that during internet connectivety I come accross
a lot of virus
(almost always w32.spybot.worm) in my TFTP files as notified by symantec
antivirus notification
messages, which are quarantined by symantec and later deleted by me.

 

[rajiv juneja]

Marl
I am downloading winsockxpfix right now and will be using it soon .
Thanks all the same for the help