- Nov 1, 2014
- 14
10/28/2014 - Noticed first warning from Norton that an intrusion attempt was blocked. After this, they quickly became a regular occurrence, happening anywhere from every few hours to every few minutes. Offenders include "f0fff0," "fffSee," and various basic IP addresses.
After I did some Google searching, I found other people with the same problem who mentioned system slow-down and multiple instances of dllhost.exe *32 processes (Description: COM Surrogate) running simultaneously, so I checked my processes and found that the same thing was happening to me. At any given time I have anywhere from 5 to 20 instances of dllhost.exe *32 running and an abnormal amount of system RAM and (sometimes) CPU usage (I'm not sure what the typical amount of RAM usage is for my system because I never looked before this, but I know it can't be 5 to 13 GB like it is now).
Also, I don't know if it's related in any way, but my Norton security history also shows an ungodly amount of "Unauthorized access blocked (Open File)," going back as far as 7/7/2014. When a batch of these starts, they happen every couple of seconds and last various lengths of time.
By the way, the link here that was supposed to take me to a page with links for FRST, AdwCleaner, and aswMBR only had a link to FRST. That's why I didn't include scan uploads from the other two tools.
And be gentle with me, this stuff is all very new to me. I apologize in advance if I've broken any protocols in the creation or content of this thread.
After I did some Google searching, I found other people with the same problem who mentioned system slow-down and multiple instances of dllhost.exe *32 processes (Description: COM Surrogate) running simultaneously, so I checked my processes and found that the same thing was happening to me. At any given time I have anywhere from 5 to 20 instances of dllhost.exe *32 running and an abnormal amount of system RAM and (sometimes) CPU usage (I'm not sure what the typical amount of RAM usage is for my system because I never looked before this, but I know it can't be 5 to 13 GB like it is now).
Also, I don't know if it's related in any way, but my Norton security history also shows an ungodly amount of "Unauthorized access blocked (Open File)," going back as far as 7/7/2014. When a batch of these starts, they happen every couple of seconds and last various lengths of time.
By the way, the link here that was supposed to take me to a page with links for FRST, AdwCleaner, and aswMBR only had a link to FRST. That's why I didn't include scan uploads from the other two tools.
And be gentle with me, this stuff is all very new to me. I apologize in advance if I've broken any protocols in the creation or content of this thread.