It's not rally safe to only update virus sig etc. when going online I've just recovered user files etc stuff from a system that never went online and had quite a few nasties on it including some in Normal.dot
So - somebody had imported some infected files - via Floppy, CD, DVD, or just memory stick You should be able to download the virus sig fileset for most ant-virus applications and take it to the system on a memory stick JimB. - ---- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Lindgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 4:41 PM Subject: Re: HARDware: CPU usage 100% > We opted to do a fresh install of XP. It went fine and everything is > working well. The owner told me she deleted a bunch of files. She thinks > she may have deleted something she should not have. > > I put the computer on the network and updated everything including XP. > She should be fine. If she ever gets internet again, we will get the > virus and firewall protection running and up to date. > > Thanks for all the help and patience. > > Rod Lindgren > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of James Button > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: HARDware: CPU usage 100% > > Sorry for the late response - I'm in the UK, and it was well past > bedtime Surprised that you cannot identify an activity/service that > accounts for the CPU usage - > > The Delta values indicate OS action - usually associated with pagefile > management or use - that can slow the system without showing as CPU > usage - because it's actually waiting for disk response and if there are > 2 activities incrementing pagefaults - then that indicates a problem > with insufficient memory to run both those activities concurrently > > Probably ruled out problems due to incompatible memory and comms > controller problems I presume that AVG has not been updated as it has no > network connection - that and the SP1 level means the system is at risk > - could be it's been got at and something is trying desperately to phone > home (while hiding itself from the monitors etc) > > So - what is actually informing you that CPU usage is at 100% ?? > > And what activities are started - if not actually reported as using CPU? > > JimB > > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
