Re: services.exe at 99% on CPU by othehi on April 15th, 2004 01:38:04 AM
Do you have the updates for all those programs you mentioned?
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Re: services.exe at 99% on CPU by on April 15th, 2004 02:38:04 AM
One of those two SERVICES.EXE is an interloper. I believe you're wasting your time stopping Windows services. The valid services.exe is the Service Manager, which lists the services you've been stopping.
Look in Computer Management/System Information/Software Environment/Running Tasks you'll see the two services.exe - the correct one will be in WINNTSYSTEM32.
The problem now is to kill and delete the other one. I don't think Windows will allow you to kill the dud one, because it'll recognise the name.
Command Line Process Viewer/Killer/Suspender might be of use here. A search through the registry for services.exe and a look at the Programs/Startup folder might bear fruit too.
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Re: services.exe at 99% on CPU by on April 15th, 2004 03:39:17 AM
All the programs I mentioned are up to date.
One additional info I came to find out.
While the CPU usage remais at 99% as long as I have the internet connection off I have noproblems running other programs.
From the moment I connect to internet it takes about 3-5minutes to slow down the computer that I have to shut the power to turn it off.
Any suggestions?
P.S. If I want to kill a services.exe how do I get to the command prompt in W2000?
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Re: services.exe at 99% on CPU by on April 15th, 2004 04:07:03 AM
I think you have a NETSKY worm variant. Just 15 minutes ago I viewed an email and my Etrust antivirus popped up a message that it had detected NETSKYP worm. While checking it out via Google, I found that several variants of this worm run as SERVICES.EXE. I hope you have an up-to-date antivirus running.
Enter cmd in the RUN box to get a command prompt. Look for services.exe in WINNT folder. The valid one's in WINNTSYSTEM32 as I said. If it IS a worm, the reason your CPU goes to 100% when you're online is that it's busy emailing itself to half the world. A good firewall would have picked up the outgoing traffic and alerted you.
There's a removal tool at Symantec
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Re: services.exe at 99% on CPU by on April 15th, 2004 04:59:30 AM
Thank you.
I did try running FxNetSky but it did not detect any thing.
When ever I visit windows update I get a popup window for adv. I don't know if there are any connections.
Do you have any idea about AoLEDIT.dll? it seems to have some pop up redirecting effect.
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Re: services.exe at 99% on CPU by Anonymous Ghost on January 16th, 2005 01:17:59 PM
your problem is a known problem, it's due to esent.dll check this miscrosoft support page for more info
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328885 |
Re: services.exe at 99% on CPU by Anonymous Ghost on May 09th, 2005 09:01:35 AM
I've been seeing the same problem for the last week or so. Look in your System Event log for errors that occur in bunches at about 6 hour intervals. They indicate that SERVICES.EXE has lost contact with either the lmserver service or dnscache service. Anybody else seeing these same ones? |
Re: services.exe at 99% on CPU by Anonymous Ghost on October 03rd, 2005 07:14:14 PM
The last post is absolutely on the right spot. You do NOT have to be killing all your services. By the way, a easier fix is this.
Go to the run key in the registry and make sure you remove the BullSh@t key for services.exe you can also set that service to a priority of Low in the task manager so you can actually do this work on your machine without it taking over. Now, once you've gotten rid of that key go to your windows directory and remove all security rights from the file. Add the everyone user and click all the deny buttons. Then restart. This will make sure there aren't any hiddin spots in the registry or some profile startup directory. Once you've restarted remove the everyone from the list, click ok and delete the hell out of that thing. The BS one is in your windows or winnt directory. The good one is in your System32 directory. This security trick has been extremely helpful to me in killing all that stubbon stuff. |
