Random processes and programs using 25% CPU for no reason.

[Ratrec]

Over the past week or so, I noticed that these weird processes starting with 'win' were using an abnormally high amount of CPU for a random process (exactly 25%) so I just ended them. I found that they are located in %temp%, so I thought I may just be able to delete them. Not quite... they're open in something. I also noticed that their filesizes are different, but now I can't seem to get them to appear, I can't show it at the moment. After about 3 days of it, I noticed it did something new. Now, it started making other processes use 25%, like Skype, or Chromium (basically, what Google took Chrome off of). This was really annoying.

 

So, I downloaded Sysinternal's Process Explorer, and found that these mysterious CPU-hogging processes were running under the process trees of my programs. About that time, I decided to run Malwarebytes's Anti-Rootkit, as the normal anti-malware seemed to not detect them. Sure enough, the anti-rootkit found the processes. I jumped in joy and restarted my computer. That joy was short-lived, as now the processes seem to be using 25% for no apparent reason, but at least those weird 'win' processes are sparse. Process Explorer by Sysinternals no longer detects those mysterious processes under the process trees of the normal programs.

 

So, anything I can do now? I really hate this high CPU usage, and I would like to know how to solve this annoying issue.

 

Thanks,

 

Ratrec

[1PW]

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