Actually I suspect they came from financial sites; I get a huge amount of associated spam as well. I'm much more careful about what links I click these days....but the spam continues.
cbg.exe seems to be the problem. Can you locate the file and tell us the folder path name of where it is located. I don't have it on my system. Hopefully, by the path name we could determine whether it's good and evil.
Hi, I just read the first post of this thread and have no time to read all the other posts, maybe some have already mentioned it, but from what you've said I beleive you have a virus on your system if cpu is at 100% and you cannot determine a geniune application is using it. I also saw couple of lines of Norton/Mcfee breezing through the posts. I recommend niether. they're not great and slow your computer down. I highly recommend Nod32. I use it, and it's the best anti-virus there is in my view. it is extremely small and does not slow your computer at all. I'ved used others and in my view it is the best. nod32: http://www.eset.com
Ceniman, found CBG.exe and that is not the problem. That's just the program i used for the snapshot. Thanks for looking it up.
I just checked the 2 snapshots uve put up in the previous post. I don't see any problem there. all processes are normal and i don't see the cpu running at 100%. u still have a problem?
Hi Batman, Yes, it just spiked at 100%. But I think you still might be right. MY charting software gets most of the CPU resource.
if it only spikes to 100%, then that is perfectly normal. if it remains above 80% consistantly to the point that it freezes your computer (esp. when charting software is off) then you certainly have a virus. but I can't see anything suspecious in ur processes.
You could have a trial with an anti root kit tool: http://free.prevx.com/ Do not trust completely on Spybot or Ad-aware....
Thanks Bernard. Also I am thinking about upgrading some memory, basically going to the max allowed for my system. Any brand or type in particular? Thanks to all for the inputs.