Possible Virus! Stumped

[AMDUW]

Don't know where to exactly post this but here are my computers symptoms.
This started happening about a week ago. I haven't installed any new programs, or downloaded and ran any suspisious files. First thing is that the computer is using a 100% of the proccessor power all the time. It is an AMD 1.4Gghz, 512 DDR ram. It has been running fine up until this point...meaning I can run numerous programs without any decrease in performance. When I boot the computer into Windows 2000 safe mode, it will run without the 100% usage. But through normal windows it will not work properly. I have checked all running tasks and nothing in there looks susposious. I have ended every task I can as well...without crashing windows. Still nothing can bring the usage down. I have Norton Antivirus 2002, with all the updates. I have also ran the virus scan at housecall.antivirus.com. Neither of those have picked up anything. I have also ran a defrag. Another thing I have noticed is that I can't browse secure web sites. Any bank site or anything of the sort. That is about all the sympotoms i have seen. Any ideas about what could be causing this. ANY INPUT is great. Thanks! 😕

 

[wizdum]

It possibly could be a backdoor trojan. Bionet, for example, has an option to always use 100% of the CPU's power in an attempt to crash the PC. If I were you I would format the hard drive first and see if it still happens. If not, then you're fixed. If it is still doing the same thing then it would have to be a hardware problem.

 

[Dulanic]

http://www.lsfileserv.com/aaw.html

There are quite a few programs out there that will install spyware that will use all your CPU, they run programs kinda like seti, but without your permision and hide themselves.

 

[Bovinicus]

See if any programs are in your registry or the startup directory on your start menu. The place to look in registry is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Good luck.

 

[MrBond]

There is a distributed.net trojan that I ran into a couple of times back when I was doing PC repair. Check out symantec's website for more info on that particular trojan.

 

[teqwiz]

Could be that your processor is ready to die. Safe mode would relieve alot of the DLL load on the system and would explain the drop in load. It alwys does this.
I have Norton 2002 also, and would doubt that it would miss a virus like that if it was updated for that peticular one. Could be a new virus, just out also. Try running Virus scan from safe mode, or with a boot disk. This will give you a more thourough scan of files because they are not open in the backround and deny access from the OS.
lol🙂