doom Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 For the past 3 days I have been battling the svchost that is directly related to the remote procedure call service. The svchost keeps eating up all my paging file memory, but cpu usage remains low. It gets to the point where I am still connected to the internet, but I cannot go to websites, I can only view pages I have already opened, or third party programs such as AIM will continue to work. I end up having to restart the svchost with processxp, but it ends up using the paging file memory after about 15 minutes. I know it is some sort of memory leak and not a virus. I have used every virus scan / spyware tool I can. If anyone has a suggestion as to how I can fix this problem I would appreciate greatly. I have tried using a download of all the xp hotfixes, but my computer did not have an i386 folder on it in which to place the updates? I found this strange, but I checked and none of my other computers have the i386 folder either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 Your description reminds me of the Sasser worm - or one of its relations.Have you tried a scan with Stinger - click here.Stinger is for specific pests, not a general anti-virus. It's quite safe - it comes from McAfee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doom Posted July 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 Your description reminds me of the Sasser worm - or one of its relations.Have you tried a scan with Stinger - click here.Stinger is for specific pests, not a general anti-virus. It's quite safe - it comes from McAfee.I'll try it right now an see what comes up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doom Posted July 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 scanned, nothing came up, sorry to double post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 scanned, nothing came up, sorry to double post.OK, Worth a try.We'll have to wait and see what others come up with. Hang on for a while! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doom Posted July 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 I think reinstalling windows might be my best option here, even though it's the last thing I want to do. Actually, I don't want to do that at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 When did this start? Can you try a system restore to a date before it started? It's at least worth a try - better than reinstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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