Memory usage keeps on increasing

[Cristatus]

I think I have a virus. When I check task manager, and I check under processes, and the image called explorer.exe, the memory keeps on increasing. Is this normal? At the moment it is ~37,000 but still increasing (firefox is at 37,200, and it just passed firefox in terms of memory usage, as I typed this up). Is this normal that it keeps on increasing like this?

 

[Xyo II]

that's a lot for firefox to be using too, but i get faulty readings like that if i leave the task manager open and look at mem usage, it will just keep on going.

 

[Cristatus]

so this is nothing to be alarmed of?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Did your anti-virus scans come up clean? Is the "always on protection" still running? What about your anti-spyware scans?

 

[Cristatus]

Well, I tried to uninstall my other AV, so I had to uninstall McAffee, but the other one (Kaspersky) wouldn't work properly, so I had to uninstall Kaspersky. Now I am AV-less. But I used F-Prot's AV scanner to scan from Hiren's boot disk, and I got a couple of entries, which I simply deleted. Never though about spyware, will go and scan for that now.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Install and use AV. Using a limited user account like any sane and intelligent person would should keep most viruses at bay, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Cristatus]

Point taken. What is a good online scanner at the moment? I don't have any AVs, as both of them have flopped. (both were at least a couple of years old, and won't let me re-install)

 

[Phoenix86]

Cap't Obvious: Have you rebooted?

Try scanning with trend micro's online house call, better than nothing...

 

[Cristatus]

Unfortunately, I have rebooted at least twice since I thought I was infected.

I'll try TMOHC, see what comes up.

 

[Cristatus]

Well, I managed to fix the problem. It was just a matter of removing some spyware using Ad-Aware. I didn't have that installed (I can't believe it!) and it found like 40 things to delete on my computer. After removing those, the problem almost immediately stopped.

 

[rmrf]

Originally posted by: logic1485
Well, I managed to fix the problem. It was just a matter of removing some spyware using Ad-Aware. I didn't have that installed (I can't believe it!) and it found like 40 things to delete on my computer. After removing those, the problem almost immediately stopped.

you must not look at ANY pr0n

I know people that will come up with more than 100 entries in just a day of browsing :shocked: