Jun 20 2012, 03:50 PM
It's probably a virus using you to mine bitcoin or some other nefarious purpose that needs your cpu.
I never trust a system once it has been compromised by a virus. If you have to, I would try running nod32 antivirus to start + myriad of other tools. It takes forever to run scans and they still can't be trusted fully to get everything. I would back up critical irreplacable data to an external drive, format the machine, and install windows from scratch. If the amount of memory used by programs seems to have doubled, it is possible you had a stick of ram die also. I would check that out.
I never trust a system once it has been compromised by a virus. If you have to, I would try running nod32 antivirus to start + myriad of other tools. It takes forever to run scans and they still can't be trusted fully to get everything. I would back up critical irreplacable data to an external drive, format the machine, and install windows from scratch. If the amount of memory used by programs seems to have doubled, it is possible you had a stick of ram die also. I would check that out.
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