re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron
Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 9:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by James Griffith
(2 messages posted)
So if you stop the print spooler in services under Admin tools it just starts up
again? What file is the virus in? Can you manually delete the file? Also if you know
what your doing in the registry you can look for that file name and delete anything
that involves that file if its not important.
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Make sure you have either a back up or a restore point before you do any of this
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The way I got mine to work is stop the spool service, then go to Windows Explorer,
C drive (where windows is installed), system32, spool, then deleted everything there
that it would let me, then opened regedit and and looked for the name of my printer
and deleted eveything for that also. then rebooted, when it came up tried checked
to see if i had any problems which i didn't then intalled my printer all went well
no problems since.
Also i didn't have any viruses either, thats probably another problem.
On Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 11:13 am, sandpiper wrote:
>Hello
>I have had that spoolsv.exe problem for a week now and though I have no files waiting
>to be printed, the spoolsv starts randomly and each time I get a message from norton
>telling methere is a W32 Gaobot virus in that file. I have performed about a dozen
>complete scans with different antivirus programs, incuding specific fix tools from
>Symantec, and they either don't find that virus or when they do, it comes back within
>the next few hours. Amazingly, Norton is the one who warns me about it and at the
>same time, when i scan that file, it says there are no infections...?????
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