Rather high CPU usage? (probably not virus)

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Hi tech forums, recently my computer is experiencing pretty high CPU usage, when I'm not doing anything, windows task manager says its at 5%, although it occasionally jumps to 10% or so. But when I have Firefox open with a youtube video playing, it will be around 15-25%. This is very annoying as it makes my applications lag (the scroll bar moves choppily in Firefox!). Initially I thought it was a virus or spyware, so I ran a full system scan with AVG free edition and webroot spyware sweeper, but both found nothing. I have the definitions up to date! And it's not my graphic card driver either because I just installed the newest nVidia drivers.

Could it be that my computer has too much stuff on it? I did a defragment of the drive this OS (vista ultimate, updated) is installed on, but that didn't help. What do you think I should do next? Thanks for your time. :)
 
Thanks, I've read it, here's my Hijackthis 2.0.2 log:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 20:11:21, on 9/11/2008
Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6001.18000)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
D:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
D:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
D:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe
D:\Windows\RtHDVCpl.exe
D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\GrooveMonitor.exe
D:\Program Files\Winamp\winampa.exe
D:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe
D:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe
D:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe
D:\Windows\ehome\ehtray.exe
D:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
D:\Windows\ehome\ehmsas.exe
D:\Windows\system32\conime.exe
D:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
D:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe
D:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe

O1 - Hosts: ::1 localhost
O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - D:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: RealPlayer Download and Record Plugin for Internet Explorer - {3049C3E9-B461-4BC5-8870-4C09146192CA} - C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer\rpbrowserrecordplugin.dll
O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} - D:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgssie.dll
O2 - BHO: Groove GFS Browser Helper - {72853161-30C5-4D22-B7F9-0BBC1D38A37E} - D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\GrooveShellExtensions.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - D:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Veoh Browser Plug-in - {D0943516-5076-4020-A3B5-AEFAF26AB263} - D:\Program Files\Veoh Networks\Veoh\Plugins\reg\VeohToolbar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Veoh Web Player Video Finder - {0FBB9689-D3D7-4f7a-A2E2-585B10099BFC} - D:\Program Files\Veoh Networks\VeohWebPlayer\VeohIEToolbar.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Windows Defender] "D:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -hide
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RtHDVCpl] "D:\Windows\RtHDVCpl.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [GrooveMonitor] "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\GrooveMonitor.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSConfig] "D:\Windows\System32\msconfig.exe" /auto
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WinampAgent] "D:\Program Files\Winamp\winampa.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG8_TRAY] "D:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE D:\Windows\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Sidebar] "D:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe" /autoRun
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ehTray.exe] D:\Windows\ehome\ehTray.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [msnmsgr] "D:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe" /background
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /detectMem (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [WindowsWelcomeCenter] rundll32.exe oobefldr.dll,ShowWelcomeCenter (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /detectMem (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - D:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - D:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Send to OneNote - {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\ONBttnIE.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: S&end to OneNote - {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\ONBttnIE.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\REFIEBAR.DLL
O13 - Gopher Prefix:
O15 - ESC Trusted Zone: http://*.update.microsoft.com
O16 - DPF: {56762DEC-6B0D-4AB4-A8AD-989993B5D08B} (OnlineScanner Control) - http://www.eset.eu/buxus/docs/OnlineScanner.cab
O16 - DPF: {8714912E-380D-11D5-B8AA-00D0B78F3D48} (Yahoo! Webcam Upload Wrapper) - http://chat.yahoo.com/cab/yuplapp.cab
O16 - DPF: {AC414988-E5BB-4C2C-873B-EA53D2F3D23A} (CCTVUpdateInstall) - http://t.live.cctv.com/ieocx/CCTVUpdateInstall.dll
O16 - DPF: {D1E7CBDA-E60E-4970-A01C-37301EF7BF98} (Futuremark SystemInfo) - http://www.yougamers.com/systeminfo/FMSI.cab
O18 - Protocol: grooveLocalGWS - {88FED34C-F0CA-4636-A375-3CB6248B04CD} - D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\GrooveSystemServices.dll
O18 - Protocol: linkscanner - {F274614C-63F8-47D5-A4D1-FBDDE494F8D1} - D:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgpp.dll
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: avgrsstx.dll
O22 - SharedTaskScheduler: Windows DreamScene - {E31004D1-A431-41B8-826F-E902F9D95C81} - D:\Windows\System32\DreamScene.dll
O23 - Service: Norton2009 Reset (.norton2009Reset) - Unknown owner - D:\Program Files\Norton2009Reset.exe
O23 - Service: Lavasoft Ad-Aware Service (aawservice) - Lavasoft - D:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\aawservice.exe
O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple, Inc. - D:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
O23 - Service: AVG Free8 WatchDog (avg8wd) - AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. - D:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgwdsvc.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - D:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (nvsvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - D:\Windows\system32\nvvsvc.exe
O23 - Service: PnkBstrA - Unknown owner - D:\Windows\system32\PnkBstrA.exe
O23 - Service: PnkBstrB - Unknown owner - D:\Windows\system32\PnkBstrB.exe

--
End of file - 5891 bytes
 
remove this

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)


otherwise you look fine
 
what about startup programs?

start > accessories > run > "msconfig" > startup tab

Untick everything there except your antivirus and firewall.
 
macdawg said:
O16 - DPF: {AC414988-E5BB-4C2C-873B-EA53D2F3D23A} (CCTVUpdateInstall) - http://t.live.cctv.com/ieocx/CCTVUpdateInstall.dll

that entry looks weird to me.

Also I see something in your log for Norton 2009 and AVG 8.

Are you running two anti viruses?
Click to expand...

Not anymore, I've uninstalled Norton. AVG couldn't find anything abnormal, but I'm sure there's something causing the high CPU usage, it's annoying me very much!
 
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