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Explorer.exe Climbing In Ram

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topslop1

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Whenever I go into my computer and then into a subfolder on my C: drive - partcicularly a folder with say 20 - 30 gigabytes in it my explorer.exe under windows task manager shows 99% usage and the ram usage keeps climbing by about 50mb every second. It just keeps going up and up until the system becomes unstable or very unusable. I have to end the process and then start over from scratch when this happens.

What's going on?
 
Originally posted by: topslop1
I did a virus scan but no go
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1) what do you mean when you say "no go," the antivirus scanner fails? or that it doesn't detect anything?

2) what is in this subfolder?

3) what antivirus scanner was it?

4) do you mean to imply that you only just now installed an antivirus scanner? If so, try F-Secure's BlackLight beta, a rootkit detector: http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight


It might be Explorer.exe trying to generate thumbnails, if it's movies/photos. But it couldn't hurt to look into the security aspect some more.

 
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