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Svchost.exe / Com Surrogate Virus
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<blockquote data-quote="Gunnerhowell" data-source="post: 431902" data-attributes="member: 40924"><p>Here they are. IE was not running and the COM Surrogate (dllhost.exe) was not wreaking havoc but the system disk was still fluctuating between about 80% to 99%. McAffe On-Access Scanner service was biggest user with system (ntoskml) file name (ntkmrnlmp.exe) fluctuating to keep disk use high.</p><p></p><p>After I ran <strong>Farbar Recovery Scan Tool </strong>and it generated the attached files, I started IE to see what would happen and system(ntoskml) dropped to around 2 to 5% and McAffe On-Access Scanner service dropped to 0%. COM Surrogate spiked to whatever it needed to keep disk use at 100%. This lasted for about 5 min then system (ntoskml) and McAffe On-Access Scanner service spiked back up again to replace COM Surrogate and COM Surrogate dropped down. Not sure if this was a normal system response.</p><p></p><p>I then stopped IE and killed COM Surrogate task and it dropped down but then McAfee On-Access Scanner service and Windows System Protection kept system at 100% disk usage with system (ntoskml) floating around them.</p><p></p><p>Restarted IE and COM Surrogate took over as the offender and kept system at 100% again but system and McAffe were there again battling for the top spot.</p><p></p><p>Again not sure if the is a normal system response to something wrong and I'm just being distracted but the end result is a that a service or a combination of services are keeping system disk usage at 100%.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gunnerhowell, post: 431902, member: 40924"] Here they are. IE was not running and the COM Surrogate (dllhost.exe) was not wreaking havoc but the system disk was still fluctuating between about 80% to 99%. McAffe On-Access Scanner service was biggest user with system (ntoskml) file name (ntkmrnlmp.exe) fluctuating to keep disk use high. After I ran [B]Farbar Recovery Scan Tool [/B]and it generated the attached files, I started IE to see what would happen and system(ntoskml) dropped to around 2 to 5% and McAffe On-Access Scanner service dropped to 0%. COM Surrogate spiked to whatever it needed to keep disk use at 100%. This lasted for about 5 min then system (ntoskml) and McAffe On-Access Scanner service spiked back up again to replace COM Surrogate and COM Surrogate dropped down. Not sure if this was a normal system response. I then stopped IE and killed COM Surrogate task and it dropped down but then McAfee On-Access Scanner service and Windows System Protection kept system at 100% disk usage with system (ntoskml) floating around them. Restarted IE and COM Surrogate took over as the offender and kept system at 100% again but system and McAffe were there again battling for the top spot. Again not sure if the is a normal system response to something wrong and I'm just being distracted but the end result is a that a service or a combination of services are keeping system disk usage at 100%. [/QUOTE]
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