100% CPU Utliization isolated to 216K System process

[Bob]

I have a Windows 2000 IBM Thinkpad that keeps spiking to 100% CPU
utlization. I followed the Knowledgebase article 295714 to break down the
system process. It seems that the threads that are causing the high
utilization have a start address 804190f0 that are associatied with the the
216K System process:

From pstask:
pid: 8 pri: 8 Hnd: 152 Pf: 3372 Ws: 216K System
tid pri Ctx Swtch StrtAddr User Time Kernel Time State
4 0 7825 8054F660 0:00:00.000 0:00:04.306 Ready
c 14 4 804190F0 0:00:00.000 0:00:00.000 Wait:EventPairLow

This machine is a 1GHz Pentium III with 512 MB RAM.

Any suggestions where to go from here?

Thanks,

Bob
rhw at lucent dot com

 

[Bob]

Turned out to be a virus. I had done a full scan with McAfee but it
didn't find it. I ran another scan from Symantec's website that found
3 infected files. McAfee's tech support said to run their scan in Safe
mode to fix the problem.

Bob
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I have a Windows 2000 IBM Thinkpad that keeps spiking to 100% CPU
utlization. I followed the Knowledgebase article 295714 to break down the
system process. It seems that the threads that are causing the high
utilization have a start address 804190f0 that are associatied with the the
216K System process:

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