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re: High CPU by system process freezes system
Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 6:05 am
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Posted by Spexx (2229 messages posted)


Additional. More searches relating to this driver mchInjDrv.sys seem to indicate that several anti-malware/firewall products may use it. It cannot be seen on disk even with Show Hidden/Show SuperHidden enabled, or it may even be generated dynamically in some cases. The filename stands for Mad Code Hook Injection Driver and it is used to assist in detecting rootkits, but has been known to be exploited in other ways. I can not find any reference to it causing the symptoms you describe, but that would rather depend on the behaviour of whatever code was being injected by the driver! Difficult to come to any hard and fast conclusions here without a lot of further investigation. Cheers. Spexx.





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-High CPU by system process freezes system (Rincewind: Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 11:54 pm)
-re: High CPU by system process freezes system (Spexx: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 4:03 am)
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