"Inactive process"

[CyberCivic]

Is it normal on the task manager a process called "inactive process" keeps running most of the time with 90% of cpu usage?!?!

Thanx a lot.

Marco

 

[kestrel1]

No this isn't normal.
If it is using 90% of the CPU you could have a problem.
Have you scanned for viruses & spyware etc?

 

[CyberCivic]

Yeah man. I'm using the Lavasoft software and Norton 2004. They found nothing, it's really weird dude. I tried lots of things and the problem continues...

Thanx a lot

Marco

 

[kestrel1]

It could be that you have a trojan that isn't being picked up by Norton.
Try a trojan removal program. Have a look at some of these sites:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=trojan+removal

 

[kestrel1]

Are you sure it says "inactive process"?
I have just looked at my task manager & noticed that if nothing else is running that I have a process called "system idle process" running at about 98 - 99 % of CPU usage.
If you run another process then this is reduced.
So looking at it, If you have the same process, I think you should be OK.
Sorry about the other misleading post's, but I didn't think to have a look at my own taskmanager first.
What a dummy I am.

 

[CyberCivic]

Your right man, my windows is in portuguese, so I did a bad translation of that. In english is system idle process, but again, is it normal?!

 

[swanwim]

yes its normal if you are not running any programs it should be much smaller when running some programs though