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Argh! IE just hijacked my cpu for the last 10 hours!!!

dennilfloss

dennilfloss

Past Lifer 1957-2014 In Memoriam
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! :|

I just opened Wintop, as I do several times during the day to check processes, and found out a duplicate instance of Internet Explorer was using 91% of my cpu and that process had been running for the last 10 hours, reducing my average rc5 keyrate in half for the last 20 hours, turning my Celeron 500 into a K6-2 500. I could not kill that process using Wintop. I could not kill that process using Another Task Manager. It just lay there, a cpu cycle black hole. The info on it was identical to my normal Internet explorer when I open a window:

C:\\Program files\Internet Explorer\IExplore.exe

Except that I had this extra one which was not showing, even in ctrl-alt-del. I have never seen IE use that much cpu power, even with 5 windows opened. My Internet had been locked by Zone Alarm during these 10 hours and whatever it was did not try to connect. My modem is louder than my alarm clock, on purpose. If something tries to connect, I will wake up. My antiviruses were updated last night so I ran both Norton and PCcillin and they declared my PC free. dnet's wormfree only detected my legit copy of the TA Cube client (address unchanged, I check everyday).

So, after checking for viruses, I decided to reboot and that thing is gone now like it was never there. I have no idea what it was but it prevented me from crunching 100 blocks. I have no idea how I could have gotten anything since I have ZoneAlarm on at all times and Norton runs in real time. The only thing I did different last night was to listen to an mp3 I got from Napster for a few seconds before realizing that I hadn't checked it for viruses. People say that mp3s are safe anyway. But I did check it with both AV and it was clean.

I just wonder if someone who does not like me or resented my invitation tried to load a porn autodialer on my system or something. Maybe it's just w98 or IE 5.5 going flaky.

Anyway, all looks clear now but 100 blocks weren't crunched in the last 10 hours. 🙁
 
Bummer 🙁 ,I once found on my 2nd PC that the 3dfx (V3) control center had hogged the cpu(90%) for a whole day before I spotted that SETI hadn't produced a result when it should.I really should uninstall those cr*ppy 3dfx extra's!
 
Dennil-

I have seen where an IE window will 'hang' in the background. It is certainly conceivable that it may have choked trying to display something even though the window itself was crashed.

When I was running Win98, I would do a ctrl-alt-delete to bring up task mananger to see if all was normal before leaving the machine. About 10% of the time, there it was, an IE window that was not responding. :| At least IE 5.x seems to only crash a single IE window most of the time as opposed to all of them.

Using Wintop and having a loud modem on purpose are great ideas. Too bad you didn't catch this before loosing all those blocks.🙁

Keep up on the recruiting efforts. I salute you.

viz
 
I learned the hard way that if you do a defrag before going to bed it won't exit therefore RC5 won't start untill you click on exit defrag :| lost 9 hours
 
That's one of the reasons why I set up Task Scheduler to run PrcView every night at 3:30am with this command line:

pv.exe -kf netscape.exe opera* iexplore.exe

🙂

I must admit, though, that if ATM couldn't kill your process, PV probably couldn't either. I just wonder why it couldn't...😕
 
biohazard,

I just played a few midi files in Winamp 2.64 and mmtask.tsk did not react at all according to both Wintop and ATM. It was before and remained at 0.01 cpu time and did not register in cpu useage.
 
I've noticed this several times. It appears that if you open IE and either hit stop or close it right away (when it's 'detecting proxy settings', or generally just trying to connect to something) it doesn't let go of resources.

Actually I've seen winamp do the same thing. If I open an MP3 and close it right away (within the first two or three seconds) it sucks up all the cpu time and won't go away. I think it's because it's still trying to buffer the mp3 into memory when I close it, and that there's a bug in there where it won't let go of resources if closed during that period.
 
The Excel autosave prompt is another cycle killer... I updated a spreadsheet that had autosave on it, but prompted me to update the file. Of course, I left with the file open and the prompt came up and sat there, hogging cpu cycles while I caught some zzzzzzzz's. Wasn't too happy the next morning!
 
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