Roy wrote:
> Hello group
> I would like to ask your opinion about some peculiarity that I seldom
> experience but as this happened lately to one of laptops twice in a
> row in a short span of time therefore it prompted me to ask the
> expertise of this group alt.comp.laptop .
> The defect that manifest is like this
> When this notebook hangs up the mouse becomes unresponsive so I can't
> open the task manager to see if what is going on .
> It just all applications just freezes and I can't do nothing more but
> just to shut up the power button.
> When I restarted the notebook once again it just start normally
> without even showing something such as that the PC was not shut down
> properly and there will be such things a checking the disk etc and
> other related automatic routines...
> In the past several days I noticed that when I open the task manager
> the chip is always running at 100% specially if there are lots of
> application open. This did not happen in the past but only recently.
> I did not noticed anything strange such as sounds or the notebook
> becoming warm etc.
> Therefore I can't think of any cause for this peculiarity.
> This particular notebook is HP run by WinXP Sp2, have 1 gig of Ram and
> still 40 gig of hard drive space, Pentium M 760 Sonoma type.
> BTW
> I can't think this is a battery problem as this was running on AC
> power when it happened.
> Does anybody here have some experience on this area and what is your
> recommended remedy for such?
> Thank You!
> Roy
>

Your notebook has most likely been infected with a virus, trojan, etc.,
that is consuming your CPU doing what it does - sending emails to infect
others.

Q