eplorer.exe cpu usage 100%

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• kryyst Ontario, Canada

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  If this is an isolated (or semi-isolated, but random) occurrence then it's likely nothing to worry about. It happens sometimes that you get a leak when browsing that'll cause your firewall or browser to make your CPU spike to 100. Firefox used to do this fairly regularly. I don't see anything in your log that looks troublesome.

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• danmiluk

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  it is not a spike,cause once it gets there is doesn't come back down & my memory usage goes to 884mb & doesn't drop back either

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• kryyst Ontario, Canada

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  danmiluk wrote:

  it is not a spike,cause once it gets there is doesn't come back down & my memory usage goes to 884mb & doesn't drop back either

  
  Not a spike a leak. A leak will cause it to spike up to 100% and generally sit there until you kill the process.

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• danmiluk

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  kryyst wrote:

  Not a spike a leak. A leak will cause it to spike up to 100% and generally sit there until you kill the process.

  
  
  so how is this resolved cause i've been doing different things all day,if comodo firewall,is not allowed to load at start up i seem to have no problems as so as it is allowed to run at start up it is as soon as it runs i cpu goes to 100% & stays there

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• Thrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  So uninstall comodo and reinstall.

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• danmiluk

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  Thrax wrote:

  So uninstall comodo and reinstall.

  
  
  hi thrax,
  i've done that, unistalled it removed all folders,& all reg entries, re -installed it low & behold it does the same thing all over again

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• Jokke Bergen, Norway Icrontian

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  Then use something else.

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• danmiluk

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  Jokke wrote:

  Then use something else.

  
  that's ok if i knew it was only that programmed then on the other hand what has caused the problem if there has been something else removed knowing why would be a god send

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• danmiluk

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  i re installed sp 2 don't know where it went to but didn't make any difference.
  
  everything is good after i found somthing in my start up i've googled it but to no avail
  
  
  xrt_jjvc.exe
  
  
  this file was created on the first day i was having trouble now where this has come from i have no idea placed it in the bin removed it from start up menu in msconfig rebooted pc
  
  everything ran as if therre was no problkems what so ever
  
  this was in a compressed folder called
  
  xrt_collect.zip
  
  
  
  i've googled that & could not find that either i maybe barking up the wrong tree but if this was designed to make you think that the firewall was the problem therefore forcing you to close it down then it has done its job
  luckily enough i have been using another pc to be online extremly baffled by all of this.
  any thoughts on what to do
  
  thanks for your help
  danny

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• kryyst Ontario, Canada

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  rename those files to something else, reboot and see if anything throws a fit. If not delete them. I can't find any reference to them anywhere.

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• danmiluk

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  kryyst wrote:

  rename those files to something else, reboot and see if anything throws a fit. If not delete them. I can't find any reference to them anywhere.

  
  i ran it through virusscan.jotti not a thing.removimg it the start menu has not caused any hissy fit yet pc looks to be clean if it was running at start up i would have thought it would be someplace in my hjt log but its not

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• stuft

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  danmiluk wrote:

  
  this was in a compressed folder called
  
  xrt_collect.zip
  

  
  I found a message today on a computer I cleaned an unknown virus/something out of yesterday. The error was "Could not copy the file xrt_collect" file or folder already exists." Searched the drive, no variation on the file name found. Looks like something is trying to create this filename or similar. Not good...
  
  Googling it, your post above was the only hit. This virus I cleaned yesterday remains nameless, the files it ran were unknown to Google et al. I used killbox to clean them out. Rebooted yesterday, ran up AVG, found nothing.
  
  How are you going now?
  DK

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• Leonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  It looks to me that your problem is way beyond any firewall-induced anomaly. I've moved your thread to the Spyware Removal sub-forum. If I'm in error, someone can move it back to software for you.

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• danmiluk

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  stuft wrote:

  I found a message today on a computer I cleaned an unknown virus/something out of yesterday. The error was "Could not copy the file xrt_collect" file or folder already exists." Searched the drive, no variation on the file name found. Looks like something is trying to create this filename or similar. Not good...
  
  Googling it, your post above was the only hit. This virus I cleaned yesterday remains nameless, the files it ran were unknown to Google et al. I used killbox to clean them out. Rebooted yesterday, ran up AVG, found nothing.
  
  How are you going now?
  DK

  
  pc is running fine a bit wary about going on password protected sites really don't know about it.
  
  i ran avg anti virus,adawre,spybot,also virruscan.jotti
  
  everything comes up with nothing
  was the pc you cleaned yours or someone elses
  it was only when my firewall was not working is when i came across it
  ther was another file that came with maybe you should search it aslo
  xrt_jjvc.exe
  probilly worth a look

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• stuft

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  danmiluk wrote:

  pc is running fine a bit wary about going on password protected sites really don't know about it.
  
  i ran avg anti virus,adawre,spybot,also virruscan.jotti
  
  everything comes up with nothing
  was the pc you cleaned yours or someone elses
  it was only when my firewall was not working is when i came across it
  ther was another file that came with maybe you should search it aslo
  xrt_jjvc.exe
  probilly worth a look

  
  The computer was a clients W2K machine with old, old NAV 14 months out of date. That was Part A of the problem. Theirs wasn't a firewall problem, didn't have the 100% CPU issue. Trojans/viruses were installed in a drive-by redirection hijack of a website they used sometimes for work. Naive users, not their fault.
  
  I used AVG free on the spot the day I found your post, found nothing, but the next day installed CA VET AV with that (next) days updates and found a virus. Also ran Spybot which found 3 more. Adaware found nothing much. So timing is everything.
  
  They were a combo of trojans and virus emailers. I used the nifty Killbox utility to remove two files that wouldn't go away - it will allow you to set a file for deletion on reboot, with a second option to replace it with a dummy file which you can delete later - a lifesaver.
  
  They had a Sony product driver installed so of course I found a rootkit-stlye hidden file. Removed by logging on as Administrator and deleting the whole \local settings\temp directory under the user folder.
  
  I can't post links yet, but if you need links to stuff reply in the forum and I will let you know where to look.
  
  Thanks for the update, I will check for that second file.
  Good luck.

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• stuft

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  Leonardo wrote:

  It looks to me that your problem is way beyond any firewall-induced anomaly. I've moved your thread to the Spyware Removal sub-forum. If I'm in error, someone can move it back to software for you.

  
  Sorry Leonardo, I replied via a link, missed your post.

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• danmiluk

  October 2007 edited October 2007

  the biggest problem i have is that if nothing was able to catch it or trace but it was able to knock out my firewall or bypass it i still don't know if there are any traces left on pc. accept for all the things i have found they are now deleted.if there are other files associated with this then i probably not know.

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