my cpu usage is up to 50%
 

it is never this high, its a 3.2ghz 1gbram radeon9800 computer... i have 30 processes running, which is the norm (is that high?) but the cpu usage is NEVER high.. and i can hear it is louder than normal...

how can i lower this bitch back down

virus :2 cents:

one would need a bit more information to answer, assuming your on windows ctrl-alt-del and look in the processes to see which process is eating up the cpu

see what program is taking up all the cpu usage.

See what's running in the background and disable what is useless.
http://www.startupmechanic.com/

IEXPLORE.EXE 38,668k
AIM.EXE 36,144k
EXPLORER.EXE 18,368k
SVCHOST.EXE 10,944K
ICQ.exe 10,900 K
P2P Networ... 10,200k
blackice.exe 8,504 K

thats ordered by mem usage... theres a ton of other small ones, particularly svchost.exe 5 times but they're all small.

order them by cpu usage to see which one is using a lot not by memory. sometimes just a flash banner on a page your visiting would spike up the cpu usage

damn, that dosn't look right.

Possible spyware or a virus. Maybe youre sending mails like crazy without knowing it.

Buying a hardware firewall is the solution

actually yeah something is fucked up... i recieved an email from Postmaster: Undeliverable Mail when i woke up... and inside it says

Requested action not taken: virus detected

Original message follows.

Received: from dreamache.com [64.42.138.12] by realdoll.com with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-8.03) id ABAD30D001E; Thu, 05 Feb 2004 07:48:45 -0500
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Server Report
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:48:00 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_BA00122F.4F30FC7F"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Message-Id: <[email protected]>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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real doll? wtf? and it says it had d0cument.zip attached to it. so yeah im gonna have to get rid of this shit.

Uhg...here we go again...that doesnt mean your infected...everybody seems to think that. It means someone might be infected and the virus spoofed your email address.

P2P Networ... 10,200k spyware


but just that one thing wouldnt do it run adaware to get rid of all
the spyware and see if it still runs high
you can get adaware here http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

well i went to msconfig and unchecked "Load startup items" and restarted... and now the cpu % is down back to 1% or so... but i ran adaware and got rid of like 33 different things.