Re: Ridiculously High RAM Usage With NO Apparent Cause
You can disable sysmain (or previously superfetch). It's a Windows service that tries to guess what you will open based off your habbits and will preload those stuff in RAM to increase performance. I personally find it very annoying.
Also, @23, that sounds like a virus. You could've used another program other than task manager to inspect the processes and resources. I'm guessing the virus would be scanning for taskmgr. An anti-virus is just looking at files, fingerprint them and look them up against a virus database to see if it's a known threat. Some more advanced can scan your outbound network activities and do other fancy stuff. All that to say an anti-virus will not catch everything. The problem is that virus are just regular programs that do something you don't want them to, so it's hard to flag them without too much false positive / false negative.
If you suspect your computer is compromised, it is advised to reinstall a fresh OS anyway. It is not garanteed it will wipe the virus, but it is very likely. Very few viruses are able to persist through a OS reinstall.
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