windows 7 high ram and cpu usage

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

With any browser in my ram goes up to 100 so does my cpu sorry if this is sloppy I have to keep rewriting it it happens in all browsers no matter how many tabs or whether it is casual browser in or videos it randomly arose while in the middle of browsering the only way to lower the usage is closing it stopping all the processes of the browser and some com surrogates that are also using a lot of ram.

RaDiKaL_ · Dec 30, 2014

Sounds like you got your system infected, try running your antivirus and malwarebytes, if it's too slow due to the lack of resources (since it's being used up at 100%) you'll need to take your HDD to another pc and disinfect it there.

Another possibility would be to boot your system with an Antivirus bootable CD, Kaspersky and Avast have (or at least used to have) that, google around to get them and burn a copy (preferably from another clean pc).

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

Alright. I might be able to boot it up and quickly start an Avg scan. Would this be enough?

RaDiKaL_ · Dec 30, 2014

A full scan should detect the viruses, but no, it won't be enough, you'll need to complement it with malwarebytes since the antivirus deals with virus, but malwarebytes deals with malware which is more common these days, you can download it from www.malwarebytes.org

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

Never mind I was able to install mal ware bytes and they are both scanning now.

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

I will go back to this post once the scans are done. I'll probably go to bed and sleep it out because it'll be a while for the scanners to get though my hdd space.

RaDiKaL_ · Dec 30, 2014

Yeah leave it running overnight.

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

Mal ware bytes kept blocking a malicious site so I unplugged the Internet going to the computer and the ram usage and could usage settled back down.

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

*cpu not could

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

It continues popping up the malicious site thing though saying it's 195.2.241.167 port 62539 type outbound process C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dllhost.dll

RaDiKaL_ · Dec 30, 2014

hmm either that dllhost.dll is being called by another (the infected) file or the dll itself got infected.

Being a core file from the system neither the antivirus nor malwarebytes will be able to disinfect it since the OS itself its protecting it, you'll have to disinfect it either by connecting your HDD to another pc and scan it from there (again with both antivirus + malwarebytes) or run a live CD from Kaspersky/Avast (I guess AVG also has a live cd too?) to finish the job.

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

RaDiKaL_ :

Ok, is there anyway you could link me to somewhere I can get a disk image for one of those and a USB disk image creator? I don't have disks, only USBs, and my computer isn't exactly in the browsing state. Please and thank you. P.S. I recalled removing security essentials and after re-installing it, found a handful more viruses, but I'd still like to use the disk/USB method.

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

RaDiKaL_ :

I just looked in my Syswow and found a dhost.dll.exe? That's what malwarebytes kept blocking after it was done scanning. Seeing as it, and a few other dll files, are actually .exe versions, impersonating the real ones most likely, could these be the infected files?
edit: I found that only the exe versions exist in the syswow. malwarebytes stopped "blocking a malicsous website" and I beleive it was being called through the dllhost because the ip address and the other bits kept changing every few times it was blocked.

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

RaDiKaL_ :

Sorry I keep throwing all this info at you, I just have no idea whether it may be useful or not. Nevetheless, MSE found a Trojan Powessre.Alreg and its description is its dangerous and executes commands from an attacker and suggested I remove it, so I did.

RaDiKaL_ · Dec 30, 2014

Good thing you removed that one, however if problem persists you'll have to do what I mentioned above.

jaredmykal1 · Dec 30, 2014

RaDiKaL_ :

RaDiKaL_ · Dec 30, 2014

Glad to see you got your system fixed.

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