Hi.

Is the utilization constant? Or does it decrease after the bootup process?

hm.. I would download and install Ccleaner from www.filehippo.com and run it automaticly when Your computer starts. Have You tried the Autoruns v8.5 tool from www.sysinternals.com to check Your startup files?

You also can try the "netsh winsock reset" in a CMD window.

Note that if you have eg. Google desktop search installed You may have to reinstall that application again.

Most of the sites I've looked at say this is either a trojan, worm, spyware etc. The process under task manager should be IEXPLORE.EXE not iexplorer

http://startup.networktechs.com/srch-iexplorer.exe.html

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/iexplorer/

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.lorsis.worm.html

Try running Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356&displaylang=en

wee.alex

Thanks for the help.........i tried last night to download the MS malicious removal but Explorer crashs in the middle of the download.  My guess is that I will need to download this to a disk and run from the disk.

Would the virus/worm be causing Explorer to crash or is it too much CPU usage caused by the virus/worm?

Thanks again

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@IOWA_hawkie54 wrote:

wee.alex

 

Thanks for the help.........i tried last night to download the MS malicious removal but Explorer crashs in the middle of the download.  My guess is that I will need to download this to a disk and run from the disk.

Would the virus/worm be causing Explorer to crash or is it too much CPU usage caused by the virus/worm?

 

Thanks again

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Like Dunedin says, I would run the online scanners he mentions ( I've found the Trend Micro Housecall to be quite good) Another good (free) download from Trend Micro is http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/ 

Try disabling the iexplorer process in task manager to see if you can download the MS malicious software removal tool (you can run this online as well). Would be worthwhile downloading MS Windows Defender (Beta) and trying it out.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/default.mspx

Some more info on the virus/trojan/worm etc. here. Some versions of it will definitely slow your pc down.

http://www.file.net/process/iexplorer.exe.html

Just checked Trend Micro's site and they have added another free tool

http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/free_spyware_scan.asp