100% CPU process with SYSTEM service

[dennisbbb]

Ok guys if you seen this before let me know.

There are a few users who are having 100% CPU utilization with the SYSTEM process, all of a sudden. When they booted to safe mode, they are all ok. When they are booted to a different profile, they are ok.

Normally this happens when you load the wrong driver or a device driver gets corrupted.

What spyware causes the 100% CPU on the SYSTEM process? This happens over the weekend on a couple of users, so I'm guess it's spyware.

 

[LloydSev]

well i've seen this from InoculateIT.. there was an article about a bug in TrendMicro products that was patched saturday at noon to correct that did the same thing...

however, InoculateIT was the only one that would only do it based on profile that I have experience with.

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[jimp56]

i was an unfortunate victim of the trend micro bug this weekend. ended up removing the A/V and reinstalling to fix it. have never seen that behavior before or since.

 

[dennisbbb]

Thanks for pointing to the right directions.

Here is the problem and the fix.

http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/...t+cpu&qp=&qt=hight+cpu&qs=&r=2&c=24263&sort=0

 

[LloydSev]

Glad we could help.

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