On Nov 15, 9:42 am, Quaoar <qua...@marcabfleet.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Thanks for your reply and indeed that was my iniital concern before I
thought of writing to this group but my internet security is well
updated and I have regularly scanned my system for malware and there
was nothing found so far. Therefore there should be other reasons that
I am not familiar with.
Any other ideas?