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<blockquote data-quote="yrnehr" data-source="post: 383653" data-attributes="member: 36347"><p>My neighbor just asked me to take a look at her laptop to see if I can speed it up. It's been years since I did this kind of work, so none of the old tricks I had seem to work.</p><p></p><p>Whenever I connect to the Internet, her CPU becomes pegged at 100%. I see presumably bogus copies of notepad.exe, cmd.exe, presentationhost.exe, msiexec.exe, svchost.exe, etc. running and using lots of memory/making heavy use of the CPU. Process Explorer tells me that they are making lots of TCP connections, quite a few of which go to AWS and Facebook IP addresses, though lots of other IPs show up. Sometimes I can kill these processes, though they just come back, and other times I get access denied. If I disconnect from the network, the CPU usage drops to ~50%.</p><p></p><p>Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yrnehr, post: 383653, member: 36347"] My neighbor just asked me to take a look at her laptop to see if I can speed it up. It's been years since I did this kind of work, so none of the old tricks I had seem to work. Whenever I connect to the Internet, her CPU becomes pegged at 100%. I see presumably bogus copies of notepad.exe, cmd.exe, presentationhost.exe, msiexec.exe, svchost.exe, etc. running and using lots of memory/making heavy use of the CPU. Process Explorer tells me that they are making lots of TCP connections, quite a few of which go to AWS and Facebook IP addresses, though lots of other IPs show up. Sometimes I can kill these processes, though they just come back, and other times I get access denied. If I disconnect from the network, the CPU usage drops to ~50%. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. [/QUOTE]
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