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[Truean]

My computer seemingly for no reason turned itself off. Desktop, fairly new, etc. Ran safe mode, found virus with malwarebytes, got rid of it (I think).

Looking at Resource Monitor, I can see there is an svchost.exe hogging the CPU cycles up to 100% on task manager. I've suspended it in resource monitor, but it restarts occasionally, to hog my CPU sometimes, not sure why. I get that this is what happened when Microsoft moved from exe files to dll, and that basically this service host file is dealing with those dll files. Problem being, this is killing my computer speed.

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Some time ago, Microsoft started moving all of the functionality from internal Windows services into .dll files instead of .exe files. From a programming perspective this makes more sense for reusability… but the problem is that you can’t launch a .dll file directly from Windows, it has to be loaded up from a running executable (.exe). Thus the svchost.exe process was born.

I terminate or suspend the process hogging my CPU and things speed right up, amazingly with no ill effects. Problem: this isn't a permanent solution. Is there one?

Can I further isolate and delete whatever is hogging my CPU if that is safe, or is there some other remedy here?

[Il Palazzo]

Have you seen this thread?
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=125531.0
A few solutions are discussed there.

[Truean]

Thank you very much. I did not see that. Though, it appears the virus is alive and well. I can't really start my desktop in anything but safe mode. Let's hope system restore works, or failing that, factory reset with e everything backed up on a 3 TB external hard drive. (sigh)

[miauw62]

Try combofix.
It's pretty efficient for removing things that MBAM can't get rid of.

[foil]

Do you use Internet Explorer?  If so best thing to do is download a modern browser and instal Adblock Plus.  Closes the biggest floodgate for viruses straight away, then try to fix whats wrong with the pc.

Could you download Autoruns from Microsoft and take a screenshot of the "everything" tab?

Microsoft moved the computers services out from the kernel and into svchost processes so that when a service crashed it wouldnt crash the whole system.

[Truean]

Firefox.

Now I'm getting blue screens of death every couple of restarts, though that was happening before I ever opened resource monitor.

Really hoping I can system restore to factory condition from a partition like I did before once, even though it's not letting me.

Other than that, I got all my data off and tried several restore points [sigh]. Trying to load this thing in safe mode again....