CPU running at 100% Constantly

whsoj1 · Aug 29, 2015

I have a back story with this laptop so bare with me. I was given an older Acer Aspire 5534 64 bit laptop that had been tossed aside after the first blue screen. I turns out the HDD went bad. So I booted Ubuntu from a USB and it ran great just needed a new battery and hard drive. I bought a 500gb Samsung evo5 SSD and and gave it a ram upgrade from 2 to 4gb. Since I couldn't get a 64 bit copy of windows 7 with out giving Acer 60 dollars for their DVD, I settled for my 32 bit home copy I already own. I started downloading programs I needed for class and some drivers I needed from Acer. Adobe reader,Flash with flash i screwed up and accidentally got McAfee with it.,Auto-desk Inventor, Avast. after a few days my processor jumped to 100% and will not drop. Ive scanned with Avast, MSE, (also I had to load these antiviruses from a USB as the downloads would "fail" at the last moment) Malwarebytes found a few PUP flies, I also used rkill and the program you run after it but rkill didn't find any root kits. I also uninstalled all the antivirus with the brands uninstall program to get it right . I'm at a loss, any help would be appreciated greatly.

Acer Aspire 5534
AMD Athion 64 bit
ATI Raedeon HD3200
4gb ram
500gb evo5 ssd

velo3100 · Aug 30, 2015

Could you let me know what programs are running at the background?

thefirstguy · Aug 30, 2015

Sounds like another "victim" to BotNets. Malicious Hackers might be using your computer to mine cryptocurrencies. So beware.

Dark antz1 · Aug 30, 2015

whsoj1 :

I have a back story with this laptop so bare with me. I was given an older Acer Aspire 5534 64 bit laptop that had been tossed aside after the first blue screen. I turns out the HDD went bad. So I booted Ubuntu from a USB and it ran great just needed a new battery and hard drive. I bought a 500gb Samsung evo5 SSD and and gave it a ram upgrade from 2 to 4gb. Since I couldn't get a 64 bit copy of windows 7 with out giving Acer 60 dollars for their DVD, I settled for my 32 bit home copy I already own. I started downloading programs I needed for class and some drivers I needed from Acer. Adobe reader,Flash with flash i screwed up and accidentally got McAfee with it.,Auto-desk Inventor, Avast. after a few days my processor jumped to 100% and will not drop. Ive scanned with Avast, MSE, (also I had to load these antiviruses from a USB as the downloads would "fail" at the last moment) Malwarebytes found a few PUP flies, I also used rkill and the program you run after it but rkill didn't find any root kits. I also uninstalled all the antivirus with the brands uninstall program to get it right . I'm at a loss, any help would be appreciated greatly.

Acer Aspire 5534
AMD Athion 64 bit
ATI Raedeon HD3200
4gb ram
500gb evo5 ssd

So open up task manager, head to the processes tab and unfilter to show processes from all users. tell us what process is causing the laptop to run at full tilt.

Then we can go from there.

Thanks.

whsoj1 · Aug 30, 2015

Looks like svchost.exe bounces back and fourth between 70 and 92% I killed the process and then fixed my internet connection and its back to normal cpu is running at normal percentage. I guess what ever takes it over only does it at start up.

Dark antz1 · Aug 30, 2015

whsoj1 :

So next time that your CPU spikes go to the process svchost.exe --> right-click --> go to services

It will highlight each service that is under the svchost.exe process.

Right click each one and end the service. Which ever you end that stops your CPU spike is the problem. Once you have found out post back and we will try to solve it

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