today i noticed windows7 professional os was laboring hard. ping.exe is coming in and out taking huge amount of resources from cpu. ran malware and trend micro business security with no avail. they both removed threats so i will post logs from both DDS log file is attached Your log file after most recent scan: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (PRO) 1.61.0.1400 www.malwarebytes.org Database version: v2012.05.17.04 Windows 7 x86 NTFS Internet Explorer 8.0.7600.16385 christian :: MAC-WIN7CD [administrator] Protection: Enabled 5/17/2012 8:24:28 PM mbam-log-2012-05-17 (20-24-28).txt Scan type: Quick scan Scan options enabled: Memory | Startup | Registry | File System | Heuristics/Extra | Heuristics/Shuriken | PUP | PUM Scan options disabled: P2P Objects scanned: 281184 Time elapsed: 16 minute(s), 42 second(s) Memory Processes Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Values Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Folders Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Files Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) (end) DDS.txt