anybody seen this before?

[Peaceful]

working on a dell computer with a svchost maxing out the cpu. Looking in the startups in msconfig I see this entry... " /c disabling it doesn't help the svchost problem, but darned if I can find what that " /c is supposed to be.

 

[tomdavies]

Have a closer look using Autoruns from Sysinternals, you can get much more detail than you can with msconfig Might shed some light on the issue. Also Process Explorer from Sysinternals should help you to see what services svchost is actually hosting and identify if they are suspicious or not.

 

[Bryce W]

Could this be it: http://www.technibble.com/how-to-fix-svchost-using-100-cpu-memory-leak/

A lot of people in the comments were saying that it can also be HP drivers.

 

[Peaceful]

already been thru all that, the svchost problem appears to be related to security center and windows firewall. Got it all sorted at one point but in the process of doing windows updates it went right back to where I started with svchost at 100 and windows firewall jacked again. I'm running rootkit revealer now to see what may be in hiding somewhere. virus and malware scans are all coming up clean.

oh yeah forgot to mention, that mysterious startup " /c has disappeared

 

[Peaceful]

definitely something weird happening, now all of a sudden I have a UNNJYSO.exe showing up in task manager

 

[vdub12]

definitely something weird happening, now all of a sudden I have a UNNJYSO.exe showing up in task manager

It sounds like an infection to me.

 

[Skyhooker]

I had something like that last week - svchost.exe used up precisely 50% CPU at all times. It was driving me bonkers, and I was sure it was from malware, until I traced it to the HP printer drivers, as Bryce mentioned - a bug in the wireless connection utility. I thoroughly uninstalled using Revo Uninstaller, reinstalled with the latest drivers, and problem solved.

Yours, however, sounds like something malicious.

 

[Peaceful]

Update...

Well in this case it turned out to be some Dell nonsense messing with windows update. Did a nuke & pave several times using the restore partition, and soon as update kicked in cpu would spin up to 100%. Weird thing is, even with autoupdate disabled, it still ran and wouldn't take any of the patches posted by Bryce. Just about the time I had the customer convinced to buy a new computer, I decided to do a restore from cd and lo and behold, no more update snafus.

 

[Alan22]

Dell has its own update utility that's different from Windows updates. It can be uninstalled via Add/Remove programs. A recovery partition includes the update software as part of the recovery image. Installing the operating system from a Dell OS CD/DVD will not install the Dell update software, but it can be downloaded and installed manually if you want, or installed from the software CD/DVD that may have come with the system. Obviously, you're not going to download and install any of Dell's update software

 

[PcTek9]

Even more fun Alan22, is when you get one that has yet another magical partition that hosts "dell's" wonderful media playing software in a microboot os. What do they call that I forget. But if you ever format a drive from all that you have so many issues to attend to because of it. It was a real pain to discover that after a complete windows re-install, i had to go back and download this special software to install at the front of the drive that would play media without being booted into windows. LOL.

 

[Alan22]

Even more fun Alan22, is when you get one that has yet another magical partition that hosts "dell's" wonderful media playing software in a microboot os. What do they call that I forget. But if you ever format a drive from all that you have so many issues to attend to because of it. It was a real pain to discover that after a complete windows re-install, i had to go back and download this special software to install at the front of the drive that would play media without being booted into windows. LOL.

Yep, Media Direct. I don't know anyone that uses it, however they will press the Media Direct button by mistake a freak out

 

[atlanticjim]

Even more fun Alan22, is when you get one that has yet another magical partition that hosts "dell's" wonderful media playing software in a microboot os. What do they call that I forget. But if you ever format a drive from all that you have so many issues to attend to because of it. It was a real pain to discover that after a complete windows re-install, i had to go back and download this special software to install at the front of the drive that would play media without being booted into windows. LOL.

Have one in the shop today. Fortunately the owner had all the reinstallation disks and the manual for reinstalling "Dell Media Direct". idk if the teenager ever uses it but I would prefer to always return the computer after a reinstall Exactly as it was when they got it from the manufacturer