What belongs in task manager?

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I seem to have a whole bunch of programs running in the backround on my
Windows XP machine. When I open up task manager, there is at least 20
procceses, including 6 svchost. My computer is running lik a horsdrawn wagon
and freezes up whenever I try to run Viris Scan or spybot scan. I'm about to
kick it ut the window. So what belongs running in the background? How do I
controll what runs in the background? Please help
 
Unless you have an under powered computer, you are heavily infected with
adware, spyware, trojans and virus's. The number of processes running has
little to do with your situation. It is "what" is running. At the moment I
have 63 processes running without any slowdown.

Boot up your computer into **safe** mode and run your antivirus scans and
spyware scans from there. You stand a much better chance of have the nasties
eliminated.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
Download, install, update and run all of the following.

Ad-Aware
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/aawsepersonal.exe

Spybot search and destroy
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/spybotsd14.exe

Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta1)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displaylang=en

If none of the above fixes the issue then download Hijack this, run it, save
a copy of the log file and cut and paste it back here to the group so that
it can be analyzed.

HijackThis
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/HijackThis.zip

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Send your HJT logs here for evaluation

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
Do NOT post Hijack This logs here. If you want Mr PCButts1 to look at them mail them to him.

6 svchosts is normal, 20 processes is not many compared to most people.
 
msinfo32 /categories +SWEnvRunningTasks /report "%userprofile%\desktop\msinfort.txt"

Will list your processes on home or pro (look on the desktop)

To see what each svchost (and other service processes) does in Pro ONLY type

cmd /k tasklist /svc > "%userprofile%\desktop\svchost.txt"


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"David Candy" <.> wrote in message Do NOT post Hijack This logs here. If you want Mr PCButts1 to look at them mail them to him.

6 svchosts is normal, 20 processes is not many compared to most people.
 
drj0n3z said:
I seem to have a whole bunch of programs running in the backround on
my Windows XP machine. When I open up task manager, there is at
least 20 procceses, including 6 svchost. My computer is running lik
a horsdrawn wagon and freezes up whenever I try to run Viris Scan or
spybot scan. I'm about to kick it ut the window. So what belongs
running in the background? How do I controll what runs in the
background? Please help
Click to expand...

Please ignore pcButthead, as all this troll is trying to do is spam this
group. This is not the place to post HiJackThis logs.

Here is some real expert advise from PA Bear MS-MVP:

Check for Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.htm
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

When all else fails, HijackThis
(http://aumha.net/downloads/hijackthis.zip) is the preferred tool to
use. It will help you to both identify and remove any
hijackware/spyware.
**Post your HijackThis log to http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html or
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30 for expert analysis, not here.**

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Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
 
Start here:

Run Ad-Aware SE, Spybot, CWShredder and HijackThis:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

Note: Update the first two programs, once installed, before running.

Once done, go to Start/Run/Msconfig/Services and check off Hide All MS
Services. From there evaluate the list.

If you are needing any more help, post back and good luck!

Added info:

Browser Hijack and Malware Removal Forums
http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?c=19

How to obtain the most effective support
http://www.net-integration.net/tools/procedure.html

Spyware, Thiefware, Browser Hijackers, etc. Parasites Forum
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?s=7dc481729338294fb5d64090b77ef364&showtopic=9882


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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
 
If none of the above fixes the issue then download Hijack this, run it,
save a copy of the log file and cut and paste it back here to the group so
that it can be analyzed.
Click to expand...

Mr. Butts,

This group is not the proper place for HJT log files to be posted and from
what I have gathered, you don't seem to be the proper person for
reading/interpreting them for the public via the postings to this MS XP
Newsgroup.

Carry on somewhere else and have a GREAT Day.


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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
 
With all due respect Kelly, what you have gathered is wrong. Why don't you
spend your time in answering the op's question instead of bothering me. From
what you said you "gathered" about me you should know that you are wasting
your time.

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pcbutts1 said:
With all due respect Kelly, what you have gathered is wrong. Why
don't you spend your time in answering the op's question instead of
bothering me. From what you said you "gathered" about me you should
know that you are wasting your time.
Click to expand...

http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_q=pcbutts1+@

Yeah Kelly, see how disrespected pcButthead is around the USENET!

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Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
 
We read his posts everyday, so we don't really need to look it up. Kurt is a political activist here.
 

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