re: smss.exe problems...
Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 7:48 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by L Esl
(879 messages posted)
Warheros ...
You might get some help here http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dalbug.worm.html
smss.exe is a legit Windows program in a specific directory (system32) ... but there's
a non-legit program with the same name that is in another directory.
Hope this is helpful to you.
L
On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 7:15 pm, warheros wrote:
>anyone know why the image name smss.exe and svchost.exe are combining to make my
>processor work at 100% when im not connected to the internet? i am confused and
would
>like the problem solved sometime, as i have been having this problem for some time,
>and it's annoying. any help is much appreciated!
>
>i have run ad-aware scans and spybot search & destroy and both done nothing about
>the problem.
>
>i am not running anything that lowers the cpu %, and my computer runs fine other
>than the cpu % says it's 100%, which it doesnt act like it is, it's not slow or
anything.
>
>thanks in advance!
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