Posts by DLove23

Oh no. I've been using this for a day since then.... no problems.... and JUST NOW, my CPU usage jumped up to 100. ccProxy.exe taking 98-99 of it. Whaaa? Ok, I've had the computer on my lap for a while, hopefully it was just that I...

Well, its been about 4 hours since I cleaned out the vents. The computer is still running quietly. After all my worrying, checking the Task Manager, going into device manager and making sure everything was working correctly,...

Ok, now its 1:30 and ccProxy just leaped up to 50. Out of nowhere. I'm just going to let the damn thing run. I'm going to download Sandra later today and see if it shows anything. edit: I took the fans out and got rid of all the...

I'm using Norton right now. I've had the lappy on and surfing the web for about a half hour now, and ccProxy.exe is still at 00. Of course, all is quiet. I've checked my email and everything too. I'm waiting to see when it goes up to...

Quote: Originally Posted by thorndt Here's a pretty informative read on ccProxy.exe... http://www.auditmypc.com/process/ccproxy.asp Also this page: http://www.iamnotageek.com/a/ccproxy.exe.php My take:...

Quote: Originally Posted by thorndt "Zombified": Computer taken over by a trojan or other malicious program, the purpose being to become a part of a bot net which can launch a DDOS (Distributed Denial of...

Quote: Originally Posted by thorndt You might consider whether or not your machine has been "zombified"... If I were you, I'd look very carefully at the list of processes running on the machine, reset all your...

I had aftermarket RAM put in, so as a last ditch effort I decided to swap out my 1024MB of A-Data RAM and put back in the bare bones 256MB that came with the computer. Everything seemed to settle down, but now after a while my CPU usage...

Ok, I just everything down besides my task manager. My computer usage didn't drop below 50%. That was with only the task manager running.

Quote: Originally Posted by thorndt Hyperthreading is turned on--you have two "virtual" processors. As for your processes, do you want to list your heavy hitters (big resource usage)? Also, just as a...