rivermandave
2010-03-02, 02:45
First off I want to thank tashi for the redirect :rockon::thanks:
Here's what's happened to me in the last couple of days..
Saturday afternoon...
While checking my Yahoo email....my computer shut down just like pulling the power cord on it. I tried pressing the power on button on the face of it (Dell Dimensions 2350...yeah....older)...but every time I got at SOME point to the Desktop screen...it would just shut down again. Did this 4 times....and finally gave up...thinking that my power supply was giving out.
The next day (Sunday) I talked with a good friend that thought pretty much the same thing. A while after our conversation I seemed to remember a similar incident with this computer while I was out in California about 5 years ago....and I "remembered" that he said to "press in the "Start / Power" button on the front of the tower...and hold it in for 30 seconds or so....and it would reset the software that monitors the power supply.
I did that....and I had no more problems with it just shutting down.
Then I remembered that I hadn't updated my SpyBot in close to a month...so I did the update and immunized...but not a scan.
After that "cutout" was fixed....and the SpyBot updates....my Internet / ISP became REALLY slow....about 1/4th of what it used to be.
I got frustrated with it last night....and decided to shut off the computer completely....with thoughts of the power supply.
This morning (Monday)....when I first started the computer....the TeaTimer.exe was going crazy for about 20 minutes...so much so that I finally did an "End Process" in Task Manager....as I thought that MAYBE the file was corrupted or whatever :rolleyes:
I then went to Ebay...and my Yahoo email....and STILL had extremely slow service.
I then exited from IEXPLORE (killed it with Task Manager)...then deleted all Internet files (IE7 Browser bar...Tools...Internet Options...Delete).
I then double clicked on the "SpyBot Search and Destroy" icon on my Desktop....and checked for more SpyBot updates...and there were none....so I started a scan.
The scan took OVER 4.5 hours....the longest previous scan I've had in the last year too 1 hr 15 min....so after a while...I started watching things in Task Manager. I ended up with one item found...a 1 kb file called SupSav.Smss32 at location c:\s
Here's my observations.....
For the most part...SypBotSD.exe ate up MOST of my "CPU" usage
But several OTHER things were happening during the scan...
Several other "exe' files kept popping up on the "CPU" usage lies
TeaTimer at points got to 12%
sbsdscan got to +90 several times...as did SDisTestSvc
Other "exe's" that were active during scan were....
Explorer
lsass
ctfmon
svchost
I'm sorry...but a scan that takes 4+ hours is just TOO unreasonbale for me :red:
Your thoughts?
Here's what's happened to me in the last couple of days..
Saturday afternoon...
While checking my Yahoo email....my computer shut down just like pulling the power cord on it. I tried pressing the power on button on the face of it (Dell Dimensions 2350...yeah....older)...but every time I got at SOME point to the Desktop screen...it would just shut down again. Did this 4 times....and finally gave up...thinking that my power supply was giving out.
The next day (Sunday) I talked with a good friend that thought pretty much the same thing. A while after our conversation I seemed to remember a similar incident with this computer while I was out in California about 5 years ago....and I "remembered" that he said to "press in the "Start / Power" button on the front of the tower...and hold it in for 30 seconds or so....and it would reset the software that monitors the power supply.
I did that....and I had no more problems with it just shutting down.
Then I remembered that I hadn't updated my SpyBot in close to a month...so I did the update and immunized...but not a scan.
After that "cutout" was fixed....and the SpyBot updates....my Internet / ISP became REALLY slow....about 1/4th of what it used to be.
I got frustrated with it last night....and decided to shut off the computer completely....with thoughts of the power supply.
This morning (Monday)....when I first started the computer....the TeaTimer.exe was going crazy for about 20 minutes...so much so that I finally did an "End Process" in Task Manager....as I thought that MAYBE the file was corrupted or whatever :rolleyes:
I then went to Ebay...and my Yahoo email....and STILL had extremely slow service.
I then exited from IEXPLORE (killed it with Task Manager)...then deleted all Internet files (IE7 Browser bar...Tools...Internet Options...Delete).
I then double clicked on the "SpyBot Search and Destroy" icon on my Desktop....and checked for more SpyBot updates...and there were none....so I started a scan.
The scan took OVER 4.5 hours....the longest previous scan I've had in the last year too 1 hr 15 min....so after a while...I started watching things in Task Manager. I ended up with one item found...a 1 kb file called SupSav.Smss32 at location c:\s
Here's my observations.....
For the most part...SypBotSD.exe ate up MOST of my "CPU" usage
But several OTHER things were happening during the scan...
Several other "exe' files kept popping up on the "CPU" usage lies
TeaTimer at points got to 12%
sbsdscan got to +90 several times...as did SDisTestSvc
Other "exe's" that were active during scan were....
Explorer
lsass
ctfmon
svchost
I'm sorry...but a scan that takes 4+ hours is just TOO unreasonbale for me :red:
Your thoughts?