pc resources stolen from another entitty?

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im running xp home and recently when i'm not running any
apps and i open my broadband connection my task manager
shows my resources being used by what seems to be someone
else because i'm not running anything at all. . . it
jumps from 2% to 98-100% using approx. 200mb of my ram,
it's like someone is using my vaio for a render farm or
something!?i've firewalled everything going into the pc
that i know of but maybe i'm missing something,never had
this problem w/BB before.

any tidbit of help would be awesome. . .

thanks
 
im running xp home and recently when i'm not running any
apps and i open my broadband connection my task manager
shows my resources being used by what seems to be someone
else because i'm not running anything at all. . . it
jumps from 2% to 98-100% using approx. 200mb of my ram,
it's like someone is using my vaio for a render farm or
something!?i've firewalled everything going into the pc
that i know of but maybe i'm missing something,never had
this problem w/BB before.

any tidbit of help would be awesome. . .

thanks
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Tried to run Antivirus with latest updates? How about AdAware
(www.lavasoft.de) and SpyBot seek & Destroy (http://security.kolla.de if i
recall right) update those both and run them also incase you have some
trojan or something in system.

What process (in task manager, look there) is using that CPU that much? what
is name of that process?
 
"sramey" said:
im running xp home and recently when i'm not running any
apps and i open my broadband connection my task manager
shows my resources being used by what seems to be someone
else because i'm not running anything at all. . . it
jumps from 2% to 98-100% using approx. 200mb of my ram,
it's like someone is using my vaio for a render farm or
something!?i've firewalled everything going into the pc
that i know of but maybe i'm missing something,never had
this problem w/BB before.

any tidbit of help would be awesome. . .

thanks
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Run a scan for spyware programs. Here are some good free ones:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://spybot.eon.net.au/index.php?lang=en&page=download
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