My computer is always running at 100% cpu usage. I have ended the process on every large file in the process page and still it is running at 100%. My son plays a lot of games on the computer and I am thinking it is a malware issue, however, it runs so slow I can't even download anything as it takes forever. Anyone know if there is anything I can do to fix this issue?
Try booting into safe mode with networking by restarting and then tapping the f8 key after the PC maker logo flashes. It's kind of a knack to get, but it should work if you try it a few times. Then go to www.malwarebytes.com and download and install their free malware detection utility, then run a full scan. Great program. If you want to be anal about it, you can do the same thing with spybot and adaware once malwarebytes is done.
haha. download malwarebytes. run the updates. restart in safe mode. use MB to scan for anything. restart back to normal.
There are several malware bugs out there that can look like legit programs, but hog your system resources. I recently had one that looked like a McAfee program, and it kept alerting me that my computer was not protected...over...and over........and over. It kept my CPU usage very high as well. Malwarebytes' Antimalware is great.
Unplug the internet to see if the CPU hogging still persists. If it stops, then sb is hacking your computer from the internet, if not you might have malicious program running on your computer. I would shell out some money for a virus program if I were you, like zone alarm if that's the case.
