How do I turn off Overclocking??

[Aiken]

If you want to investigate what's running on a background, you can do following:
Download Hijackthis utility. It's small.
Lanch it. Click on Config... button, then Misc Tools. You'll see Generate StartupList log button. Make sure that option List also minor sections (full) is enabled. Now click Generate StartupList log button and you'll get detailed log of starup apps and processes in a notepad window. Save this log to txt file and attach it to your reply on this board. Probably together will be able to find the source of your problem (if it's not a hardware problem of course).

[Baron Munchausen]

Hijackthis is good for getting the details on a worm or virus when you really know something is wrong but it's rather a lot of trouble when you don't know you've got a problem. You could just the the 'Power Toys' and 'Kernel Toys' from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/

And use 'Wintop' from the Kernel Toys to check your running processes. This displays CPU usage, too, so it would tell you where your CPU power is going. It's originally for Win95/98 but as far as I know this works under Win NT/2000/XP as well.

[Fyron]

The Task Manager in Win2k/XP lists all running processes as well as CPU and RAM usage by default. It just tells you process names though, not where the program is located. Does this WinTop tell you more than just the process names?

Hmm... WinTop.exe failed to run on Win2k for me.

[Renegade 13]

Thanks Aiken. The list is attached to this post, I'd appreciate it if people would tell me if I've got stuff I don't want running in the background, running!

[Fyron]

Well first off you have this program running...

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

That is a major security hole. Most of the bad things that infect PCs get in through the vast number of security holes in Internet Exploder...

Mozilla Firefox

[Renegade 13]

Imperator Fyron said:
Well first off you have this program running...

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

That is a major security hole. Most of the bad things that infect PCs get in through the vast number of security holes in Internet Exploder...

Mozilla Firefox

Hmmm, that's quite strange...as of the time I did the analysis of system processes, I didn't have IE running...however it still shows up the system processes? I just Alt-Ctrl-Del and terminated the process, but it truely is odd that it would be running in the background, especially when I haven't told it to launch for quite some time....although I guess my parents or sisters could have launched it. Still doesn't explain it being present in the background though...damn Microsoft...

By the way, the Firefox link was unnecessary, you converted me to Firefox about 4 months ago!

[Fyron]

hehe. Damned Microsoft indeed. I have Kerio (firewall) set to deny all connections to iexplore.exe.

[Baron Munchausen]

Imperator Fyron said:
The Task Manager in Win2k/XP lists all running processes as well as CPU and RAM usage by default. It just tells you process names though, not where the program is located. Does this WinTop tell you more than just the process names?

Hmm... WinTop.exe failed to run on Win2k for me.

Yes, and the task list supposedly lists all running processes in Win9x ... but virus writers know how to prevent their processes from being listed. Wintop is a non-standard process lister that I don't think any virus writer has taken into account -- yet. So you could likely see otherwise hidden processes by using this. There are other 3rd party utilities out there which will do the same thing on Win NT/2000/XP if Wintop doesn't work.