High Cpu Usage

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Latty05

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recently my pc has been using alot of CPU usage and tyhe fan is randomly going on full for no reason
i did CTRL ALT DEL and found that explorer.exe is using 51% CPU im sure this isnt normal cud it be virus or spyware? explorer.exe is using 23,000K and BitLord is using 68,000K
what shud i do?
 
no exe is stand alone they all use various modules (DLL's) so its very possible its spyware , do the folowing

1) scan with f-secure blacklight
http://www.europe.f-secure.com/exclude/blacklight/blbeta.exe

2) scan online on these sites
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/
(its best to scan in safe mode , if your internet connection can work in safe mode at least)

3) scan with microsoft antispyware/adaware/spybot
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4466.html
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-2
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html
update the definitions before scanning , also its better to scan in safe mode (some spywares are very persistent and cant be removed in regular mode)

4) when all done with above , get hijackthis http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip click "do a system scan and save a logfile" and open a new thread about it at http://techist.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=126 and copy & paste the log
 
Explorer.exe is your desktop. Mine takes up 58,000K but only about 1% of my processor. Are you doing anything that could cause the CPU Spike? Changing a background or screensaver or something. BitLord is you torrent application to download material. If you dont want or use that i would find out who else has been on the PC. Do as mario sugested but that is just a heads up on what those applications are that you posted about.
 
i ran virus scan and it found 4 adware it deleted 1 of them and said the others were in Internet Explorer temp internet files so i deleted all the temp internet files and then run microsfot anti spyware and it found one high risk thing called VIRTUMONDO and it had asbout 30 siganatures whatever that is so i deleted it and rebooted and then run the scan again and it was still there!
the cpu has dropped to normal now about 4-6% but its weird it just suddenly goes up to 50 randomly and the fan just goes mental its so annoying!
 
I just cleaned out a computer of many spyware and this system had the same problem so bad you couldnt hardly use it.I cleaned the spyware out and did a s6ystem restore to an earler time and it fixed it.
 
well ive tracked down VIRTUMUNDO its got a filename called vturr.dll in system32 directory i tried blocking it in microsoft antispyware but each time it just came back its a BHO i tried deleting it manually but says being used by other program or person which means its a process? but i dont knowe which process
i look around other forums and there is a Virtumundofix but it needs forum techies to tell me the right file names to delete and i need 2 file names even tho i only hav regonised 1
i hav posted my hijack this log
any help?
 
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