winlogon.exe

[Tyler]

I have a machine 800MHz, 256MB RAM, 30 GIG HDD installed
with Windows XP Home. For some reason the process
winlogon.exe in cohurts with a svchost.exe are spiking my
processor to 100% constantly. Between the two processes
they each use 50% of the processor's capacity. When I end
task the svchost.exe the winlogon.exe process immediatley
utilizes the processor to it's fullest extent.

Can anyone offer any help towards an solution to this
problem? I would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Tyler

 

[Hilary Karp]

You should check for sypware/adware and viruses:

Spyware/Adware:

Cwshredder http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Spybot Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org
Ad-aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner 1.12
http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10247783.html
Spywareblaster www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155

Virus Scanning:

http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php
http://security.symantec.com/ssc/home.asp
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp