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svchost.exe streaming audio feeds and taking all available CPU
I saw this topic on the forum - svchost.exe (netsvcs) maxing CPU out by streaming in audio feeds and although this seems to be an exact mimic of my problem I didn't think it was proper decorum to piggy-back onto his question svchost.exe (netsvcs) maxing CPU out by streaming in audio feeds
When we turn on this 64 bit W7 desktop it almost immediately starts playing what sounds like overlapping radio stations. Looking at taskmgr show that svchost's memory consumption climbs to where it's using over 500,000 KB of memory and the performance grinds to a halt. Ending the task stops the audio.
I ran a quick scan of Malwarebytes in safe mode, it detected a backdoor trojan, which I removed, and rebooted. The radio was still audible, and svchost was still maxed out.
I killed the process and downloaded Rkill and TDSSkiller. I ran Rkill in safe mode, it detected a zero access virus. I stayed in safe mode and ran TDSSkiller. It detected the zero access virus, and I clicked on Quarantine. It apparently quarantined nothing, because a normal reboot brought up the same symptoms.
I didn't want to go through the complete scenario of solutions offered to the original poster, so I never attempted the elevated net stop WMPNetworkSvc.
Should I be doing that, or something else?