myhomie Posted November 8, 2005 CID Share Posted November 8, 2005 hi guys! ive read a lot of post here in testmy.net and i think this is a very friendly and helpful site. thats why i decided to come here and ask for your assistance. this is my first time to register and make a post to ask help from the helpful guys here due to a problem that occured in my computer. heres the thing while im doing my routine maintainance for my computer, after running some anti-spyware programs i ran SPYBOT S&D 1.4 and after it scans i closed it. i noticed that my pc slowed down. so i checked my pc performance in the task manager and it showed a lot of spikes! from 2% to 50% to 100% and back again to 0% and so on. it keeps fluctuating every 1 second or so. i restarted my computer and it still doing the spikes. i dont know what to do! somebody pls help me!! im pretty sure that i dont have any virus or spyware that slow my pc bcoz i didnt installed anything prior to the spikes. and i regularly ran antivirus, anti trojan and diff anti spyware programs to make sure i woudnt have any problems but here it goes i had a problem on spikes and i dont have any idea whats causing this. can somebody pls help me. i cant use my computer properly here are the specs of my computer i dont know what info should i write here so il just write what i know. im running windows xp home edition sp2 AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+ version x86 Family 15 Model 47 Stepping 0 current speed 2190 MHz cache size 512 KB Maximum capacity 2.00 GB Installed memory 1.00 GB Memory Slot 1 512.00 MB Memory Slot 2 512.00 MB Oh God! pls send a good soul to help me! im desperate! thanks you in advance. Godbless Him! oh here a picture of my task manager. terrible! -a guy in despair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted November 8, 2005 CID Share Posted November 8, 2005 Go to the Processes tab and click on CPU twice, so it arranges programs by CPU usage. Then check which program is using so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROM-DOS Posted November 8, 2005 CID Share Posted November 8, 2005 . . .also in Task Manager in Performance tab click on View and check Show Kernal Times. Make sure all your vents and fans are clear and working. . .and like RTB said ~ find out which Process is doing the spikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhomie Posted November 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 oh thank God for the quick reply! you guys are the best! i already checked the processes and its seems normal to me, theres no foreign process and theres no process that is superhigh on its mem usage.(well thats what i think) ok here i got some more info. here are the list of the security softwares im running, kaspersky antivirus ver 5 (realtime protection), outpost firewall, trojan hunter (trojan hunter guard enabled), ad-aware, spyguard,spyware blaster and spybot S&D and counter spy ver 1.5 (active protection enabled). ive been running this programs for quite a while now and in the past they have been consistent,giving me no problems at all. isnt this problem a common one? i dunno..im getting a bit worried now. as i noticed the spikes turned relatively low now, but then when i opened the counterspy 1.5 it the cpu usage went crazy again flying up and down the screen! but this is the 1st time this happened, im using the CS 1.5 for 5 days now and for the past 4 days everythings normal. im not sure if its the CS of the Spybot. i really havent got a clue. maybe the CS is the one whos causing the problem because i have it only for 5 days now.and its the one who is new to my security arsenal. (should i uninstall CS and Spybot?) what do you think? maybe i could use Hijackthis log to show you guys more info bout whats happening in my computer? (i havnt used that yet but maybe il figure it out if i needed to use that). Indeed thank you so much. hope you guys can stick around til i solve what the hell is wrong with my computer. i rely on your expertise to solve my problem as i have no where to run to. Thanks again, you help is greatly appreciated. Godbless you. umm..how can i post pictures again. i cant find the attach files button. im sorry,im new here. i was going to show you my process and performance. oh, theres 1 that is very high, (i didnt notice this a while ago) the winlogon.exe its eating 50,000 K of memory. thats high isnt it? but i know that its an essential process and svchost.exe its eating 36,000 of my memory. well everything is the same now, the outpost and the CS are high but its normal to them and i didnt have any problems running them even they use a lot of memory before.. i dunno..i think even an extra 80,000 K woulnt hurt my computer, i think my computer can cope up with this. so this musnt be the problem right?.oh i dont know what to do. Thanks again, il wait for your expert opinion about my problem. Godbless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUff1N Posted November 9, 2005 CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 Take my word for it...your CPU spikes are caused by CounterSpy!!!!...They are happening about every 3 seconds right?...Yea...I tried the new CounterSpy out, and it's a HUGE Resource HOG......I had the same problems with the spikes after I installed it...they would jump up to 30-40% CPU usage...NO Thanks!!!! I uninstalled it and went back to MS AntiSpyware...that only uses about 6% on the spikes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhomie Posted November 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 yes i checked the vents and fans, theyre good. still circulating air in my system. the kernel time, thats the red line isnt it? most of the time its very very low just creeping below the green line. by the way whats the kernel times for? thanks a lot again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhomie Posted November 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 woah! thats what i thought. but the weird thing is i already have it for 5 days and the last 4 days its working perfectly fine, if its the one causing it it should have done my cpu spikes right after i installed it right? but it take your word and i will uninstall it. hopefully the spikes from hell will go away now. Thanks again. Thank God for Testmy.net! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhomie Posted November 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 and oh.. the winlogon.exe its now consuming only 696K! weird huh?! from 50,000 to 696. but even its only 696 now my computer is still spiking. so its not the one whos causing me problems. cheers guys! here the my processes and the CPU usage with the kernel times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted November 9, 2005 CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 What's that SunProtectionSer...exe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted November 9, 2005 CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 hey rtb- http://www.greatis.com/appdata/a/s/sunprotectionserver.exe.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted November 9, 2005 CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 So it would seem that CounterSpy is still running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted November 9, 2005 CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 reminds me of the purported tool to kill the system idle process since it uses so much cpu time.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROM-DOS Posted November 9, 2005 CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 yes i checked the vents and fans, theyre good. still circulating air in my system. the kernel time, thats the red line isnt it? most of the time its very very low just creeping below the green line. by the way whats the kernel times for? thanks a lot again. Kernel memory is non-paged memory that remains resident in physical memory (RAM) used by your operating system and device drivers in Windows.[checking this can tell you if your OS is responsible for consuming your CPU cycles] Svchost is the application responsible for launching the processes assoiciated with the behind-the-scenes programs controlled by the Services window (services.msc). You should never interfere with any instances of svchost.exe or services.exe. Use the Services window (services.msc) to start or stop a service or choose whether or not a service is started automatically when Windows starts. [you can go to the Services window to stop a service you might think is causing the problem if it's listed there, but be careful ~ check my link here to see what services are and what can be safely disabled or set to manual. > Advanced Perfomance Services <+> http://www.testmy.net/forum/index.php?topic=9452.0] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhomie Posted November 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 thanks for all the guys who replied and offered help with my problem, it seems that muffin is right. thanks man. i can confirm now that the SUNPROTECTSER.. is spiking every 3 seconds! im so relieved now.. i now know whats causing the spikes from hell! (Thank God) whew. im sorry i didnt noticed this before cause i really dont know how to look at the task manager but Now i know. if i noticed it earlier i shoulnt bother you guys. Yes, if i disabled the CS active protection its not spiking anymore!! yahoo! a million thanks for your help! i dont know how to repay you guys. im thinking of replacing the CS, do you have any recommendations what should i replace this with? Thanks again,i could not express my appreciation for your kind help. by the way, you guys are doing a great job of welcoming new people like me. i really feel welcomed and i think i will hang around here, to learn more and hopefully help other people too in the future. ive read a decent amount of post here now and im thinking of using the cablenut settings and all the internet speed stuff, i havnt tried it yet, maybe il do it if il have the time hopefully next week, but im confident that if any problems occurs i have a bunch of helpful people to turn to. Godbless you guys. thanks again you guys the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhomie Posted November 9, 2005 Author CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 ROM-DOS thanks for the info, im learning a lot about computers this past few moths more than i learned in the past 18 years of my life! il try to read a lot more of the posts here and learn some more. this is really a great site. very helpful and informative. Testmy.net rocks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROM-DOS Posted November 9, 2005 CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 Your welcome myhomie (neat name), but I must warn you: testmy.net is very addicting!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted November 9, 2005 CID Share Posted November 9, 2005 reminds me of the purported tool to kill the system idle process since it uses so much cpu time.... That one is usually at 0 here, since I run Folding 24/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted November 10, 2005 CID Share Posted November 10, 2005 I agree, this place is great..it's fun to help people out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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