Panda Software Controller (Panda IS 2008) possible memory leak

[jjohank]

I am running XP Professional SP2 (I am going to try SP3 next) and after
leaving the computer on for about 3 days, the svchost service for
Cryptographic & Panda Software controller will climb over 7,000 handles.
Eventually it will climb to 30,000 handles but system stability is
questionable. The computer has a RAID-1 Promise Fasttrack TX2300, AMD Athlon
64 3800+, 1GB DDR. Restarting the Cryptographic servie will also restart
Panda Software controller and temporarily fix the memory leak back under
2,000 handles. Restarting just Panda Software controller will get the same
result. That is as far as I have been able to get. Panda tech support was
of no help. Their only suggestion was the svchost fix for 100% cpu usage. I
am not experiencing any where near 100% cpu utilization. I have uninstalled
Panda three times and reinstalled due to the wishes of Panda support, and no
luck. I do not experience any problems with Panda software itself. I have
seen this same problem on two other computers all XP Pro, but with Intel
processors. All systems are single core. All still have SP2 for XP.

Thanks,

Jason

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I would try rebuilding the repository.

Manually delete the contents of %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 and reboot
You can also use a VB script here:
http://kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/xp_cryptofix.vbs

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