svchost.exe + NTDLL.DLL Causing high CPU Usage

Threads for it...

That's all one thread, and it's relatively strange, as if the kernel is trying to map info into the user-mode address space of a process whose threads are themselves not running for some reason, as if they've been suspended.

The svchost to which this thread belongs is the "DcomLaunch" instance - that's visible from your first screenshot. There are multiple services in there by default:

svchost.exe 708 DcomLaunch, PlugPlay, Power

Your own machine may well be different (check by running TASKLIST /SVC).

If you temporarily split up those services into their own svchost instances, it'll become easier to gauge which service spawns the CPU chewing thread, and hence where to focus the troubleshooting. To split off the services into their own svchost instances, on an elevated (run as admin) CMD prompt:

SC CONFIG Power TYPE= OWN
SC CONFIG PlugPlay TYPE= OWN

Reboot, and then check which of the services is blasting the processor.
 

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Threads for it...

That's all one thread, and it's relatively strange, as if the kernel is trying to map info into the user-mode address space of a process whose threads are themselves not running for some reason, as if they've been suspended.

The svchost to which this thread belongs is the "DcomLaunch" instance - that's visible from your first screenshot. There are multiple services in there by default:

svchost.exe 708 DcomLaunch, PlugPlay, Power

Your own machine may well be different (check by running TASKLIST /SVC).

If you temporarily split up those services into their own svchost instances, it'll become easier to gauge which service spawns the CPU chewing thread, and hence where to focus the troubleshooting. To split off the services into their own svchost instances, on an elevated (run as admin) CMD prompt:

SC CONFIG Power TYPE= OWN
SC CONFIG PlugPlay TYPE= OWN

Reboot, and then check which of the services is blasting the processor.
I did this earlier. Im going to leave this PC on though. The issue MIGHT be resolved but if the high cpu usage comes back Im gonna restart and check out whats going on with the services.
 

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I restarted the pc last night and now Its starting that issue again 49%. Its the Plug And Play thats causing it. umpnpmgr.dll with ntdll.dll!tppwaiterp thread that makes the CPU spike. If I suspend the ntdll.dll thread thats causing it. the cpu goes back to normal BUT it comes back within a few hours. Now thats a work around right now but I do not want to continue doing that
 
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Google listed over 100,000 returns on that file, but I didn't quickly see anything directly related to your problem. Not sure, but I would consider downloading another copy of it, to see if the original is corrupted.
 

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I restarted the pc last night and now Its starting that issue again 49%. Its the Plug And Play thats causing it. umpnpmgr.dll with ntdll.dll!tppwaiterp thread that makes the CPU spike. If I suspend the ntdll.dll thread thats causing it. the cpu goes back to normal BUT it comes back within a few hours. Now thats a work around right now but I do not want to continue doing that

Can you post the stacks of the threads in the PnP svchost at the point where the problem occurs again? I gather that you're observing involvement from multiple threads in that process, even if suspending one of them temporarily does the trick.

If you haven't already done so, I'd suggest testing what happens with your anti-virus completely uninstalled, not just disabled. The previous thread stack you posted is indicative of retry behaviour which may be caused by some type of interference from another component - possibly the AV.
 

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I restarted the pc last night and now Its starting that issue again 49%. Its the Plug And Play thats causing it. umpnpmgr.dll with ntdll.dll!tppwaiterp thread that makes the CPU spike. If I suspend the ntdll.dll thread thats causing it. the cpu goes back to normal BUT it comes back within a few hours. Now thats a work around right now but I do not want to continue doing that

Can you post the stacks of the threads in the PnP svchost at the point where the problem occurs again? I gather that you're observing involvement from multiple threads in that process, even if suspending one of them temporarily does the trick.

If you haven't already done so, I'd suggest testing what happens with your anti-virus completely uninstalled, not just disabled. The previous thread stack you posted is indicative of retry behaviour which may be caused by some type of interference from another component - possibly the AV.
I'll definitely do that. Well Kaspersky I never had issues with it when I got it installed with Windows 7 BUT Ill take the risk without the antivirus. If indeed it happens again. Ill post the stacks as well

Also did mailware bytes from the other poster.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.41
Database version: 3149
Windows 6.1.7600

11/11/2009 5:17:16 PM
mbam-log-2009-11-11 (17-17-16).txt

Scan type: Quick Scan
Objects scanned: 89895
Time elapsed: 3 minute(s), 3 second(s)

Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 2
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 4

Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data Items Infected:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\open\command\(default) (Broken.OpenCommand) -> Bad: ("regedit.exe" "%1") Good: (regedit.exe "%1") -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoActiveDesktopChanges (Hijack.DisplayProperties) -> Bad: (1) Good: (0) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Files Infected:
C:\Users\Brian\downloads\sopfilter.exe (Rogue.Installer) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:\Users\Brian\Desktop\Download 100,000 Emoticons!.url (Rogue.Link) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:\Users\Brian\Desktop\Sherv.NET - Animated Emoticons, Winks, Display Pics, plus more!.url (Rogue.Link) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:\Users\Brian\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\udRemove.exe (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Found five instances. of errors and removed them
 

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It would be really nice Satanical Eve, if you could give those of us who have jumped in to help you, some more 'input' about how your computer is working now.
 

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It would be really nice Satanical Eve, if you could give those of us who have jumped in to help you, some more 'input' about how your computer is working now.
Eh I was just about to come in here to talk about it. I only once had to suspend the svchost process with NTDLL.DLL inside of it yesterday. That was before I did the malware bytes scan. Once I did that. I also removed my IRC Bot that I run from the computer. That bot is being moved over to a remote computer with me having SSH access and all that for it. Ended up from 5 PM last night until I did this post it did not spike once at all. I know it usually does it within 4-7 hours Its been around 18 and half hours without it happening once. Now I'm holding my breath hoping the issue is resolved which I do believe it is because. I set up last night when I was asleep for the my PC to inform me if that ntdll.dll process spiked up and not once did it.

I'm going to keep this unresolved for now. Going to give it another two more days and see what happens. I'd like to thank everyone though for your help. I was trying this on my own fixing wise and got to a point where I was like eh I need another expert opinion. Thanks a bunch :)
 

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:thumbsup:
 

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Just wanted to say thanks to all the folks in here who helped me. The problem has seemed to go away. I do not know exactly which fix got rid of it. But thanks again. I will revisit this thread if it ever crops up again
 

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Just wanted to say thanks to all the folks in here who helped me. The problem has seemed to go away. I do not know exactly which fix got rid of it. But thanks again. I will revisit this thread if it ever crops up again
Thank you for letting us know that you're in shape!

It just matters that you have control over and with your computer. :geek:
 

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The issue is not resolved. Just recently it reared its ugly head.

This is what I am getting from the infected NTDLL.DLL!tppworkerthread

ntoskrnl.exe!KiSwapContext+0x7a
ntdll.dll!NtSetSecurityObject+0xa
kernel32.dll!LocalBaseRegSetKeySecurity+0x72
kernel32.dll!RegSetKeySecurity+0x1e8
umpnpmgr.dll!SecuritySubkeyCallback+0x116
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumRegKeyWithCallback+0xa5
umpnpmgr.dll!SecuritySubkeyCallback+0xb8
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumRegKeyWithCallback+0xa5
umpnpmgr.dll!SecuritySubkeyCallback+0xb8
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumRegKeyWithCallback+0xa5
umpnpmgr.dll!InstanceSubkeyCallback+0x115
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumRegKeyWithCallback+0xa5
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumSubkeyCallback+0x156
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumRegKeyWithCallback+0xa5
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumSubkeyCallback+0x156
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumRegKeyWithCallback+0xa5
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumSubkeyCallback+0x156
umpnpmgr.dll!EnumRegKeyWithCallback+0xa5
umpnpmgr.dll!PnpSelfHealEnumTimerCallback+0x12f
ntdll.dll!RtlpTpTimerCallback+0xcb
ntdll.dll!TppTimerpExecuteCallback+0x105
ntdll.dll!TppWorkerThread+0x6c9
kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xd
ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x1d

and heres svchost.exe!WmainCRTStartup

ntoskrnl.exe!KiSwapContext+0x7a
ntoskrnl.exe!KiCommitThreadWait+0x1d2
ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForSingleObject+0x19f
ntoskrnl.exe!KiSuspendThread+0x54
ntoskrnl.exe!KiDeliverApc+0x211
ntoskrnl.exe!KiCommitThreadWait+0x3dd
ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForSingleObject+0x19f
ntoskrnl.exe!NtWaitForSingleObject+0xb2
ntoskrnl.exe!KiSystemServiceCopyEnd+0x13
ntdll.dll!NtWaitForSingleObject+0xa
KERNELBASE.dll!WaitForSingleObjectEx+0x79
sechost.dll!ScSendResponseReceiveControls+0x13b
sechost.dll!ScDispatcherLoop+0x121
sechost.dll!StartServiceCtrlDispatcherW+0x14e
svchost.exe!wmain+0x110
svchost.exe!ScCreateWellKnownSids+0x2fd
kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xd
ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x1d
 

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Sound Card
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
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Hard Drives
Western Digital Caviar SE 200GB SATA
Western Digital External 1 TB USB
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PSU
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Did you ever run sfc /scannow?
 

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Did you ever run sfc /scannow?
I didn't think to do it.

I'll do it right now. See whats up with it. I had to uh suspend the process again. though ntdll.dll. Which then in turn caused the CPU to go back down to the normal levels. I'll post the results though. Worked for a good 2 days just about until it went back to the old habit of Spiking.

So it did the SFC scan. Hopefully repairing any damaged files. I downloaded and have Process Monitor running so hopefully if this creeps up again I might get a better picture of whats going on at the exact time the CPU spikes up.
 
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So I ended up doing a full system report using Get System Info by Kaspersky. Heres a link to it. Its a very long txt file but it has a ton of info on it. Maybe something inside of it will point to what is going on. I'm looking at it right now to gather more information and hopefully the direct problem

http://tinyurl.com/systemurlinfo
 

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8 GB
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Nvidia 8800GT
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I uninstalled Kaspersky and will not be using it. I have a feeling it might be causing issues with the high cpu usage. Process monitor would show that Kaspersky was working more then it should when the CPU would spike. So I uninstalled it. Hopefully the issue is related to that. I did install Bit Defender for now as a protective measure until I can truly be sure its Kaspersky
 

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8 GB
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Nvidia 8800GT
Sound Card
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
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