runaway process

Hi.

I have a process that at times is eating up 90 to 100% of my clock cycles.
It is spelled windosupdate.exe. Notice the misspelling of windows. I was
told by a Norton tech that this is a legitamate windows process. So I have
three questions:

1. Can anybody confirm that this is truly a legitamate windows process?

2. If it is a legitamate process; it shouldn't be eating up so many clock
cycles that my computer is hanging should it? Actually, I think this is
causing me to be knocked off line also.

3. Could it be a corrupted windows process?
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If you're not sure whether a file is malicious, you can upload it to web
sites such as VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com) which will
determine the nature of the file.

Another way is to search the web using the name of the file. You'll
either get plenty of hits explaining the file, or almost no hits, which
usually means the file is malicious.

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joesf16 wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a process that at times is eating up 90 to 100% of my clock cycles.
> It is spelled windosupdate.exe. Notice the misspelling of windows. I was
> told by a Norton tech that this is a legitamate windows process. So I have
> three questions:
>
> 1. Can anybody confirm that this is truly a legitamate windows process?
>
> 2. If it is a legitamate process; it shouldn't be eating up so many clock
> cycles that my computer is hanging should it? Actually, I think this is
> causing me to be knocked off line also.
>
> 3. Could it be a corrupted windows process?