C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe is using considerable resources

[Daave]

I am working on a Dell Latitude D610 notebook PC that belongs to my
friend's daughter. He wanted me to install more memory, which I did
(from Crucial: a matching pair, each stick 1 GB DDR2 PC2-4200). All
seems fine

I had noticed that the transfer mode of the hard drive controller had
changed from Ultra DMA Mode to PIO Mode. Using the instructions found
here:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/ninjaduck/itserviceduck/udma_fix/

.... I was able to successfully reset it back to UDMA.

Did other routine housekeeping, scanning for malware. Using Spybot
Search & Destroy and the latest AVG, everything seemed to check out
fine -- but I am aware that may not be the case! I was thinking of
running other scans, but while running Process Explorer, I noticed
suspicious activity while idle: Services and Controller app (Eventlog)
aka services.exe (correct location: C:\WINDOWS\system32) was constantly
running. That is why I figured I'd post a HJT log to this location:

http://thespykiller.co.uk/index.php/topic,6803.0.html

I was thinking of running additional scanners, but I figured I'd wait to
get some feedback first from that forum. But in the event this problem
is not malware-related, I figured I'd post here as well. What could be
causing this activity? Hardware perhaps?

One last thing: When removing the USB flash drive while clicking on the
Safely Remove Hardware icon in the System Tray, there was also an option
to remove the built-in CDRW/DVD drive! Is this normal?

 

[Ben Myers]

I looked at the HJT log and I see nothing extraordinary. Well, almost nothing.
What is JENNIFER.EXE ? Why are there so few 04 entries? Even a system
stripped of all the crap expected to run by every hardware and software vendor
usually has more of them... Ben Myers