svchost.exe streaming audio feeds and taking all available CPU

[VistaKing]

Update your BIOS

Your BIOS VERSION : A05
Current BIOS VERSION : A06

Click on the link below

:ar: Driver Details | Dell US

Click Download File for File Format: Windows/DOS

Then click on Download via browser

Save the file to your Desktop

Double click on the File

Click the Update button

 

[boweasel]

RogueKill report

 

[VistaKing]

Rerun RogueKiller and select Delete after you clicked on Scan . Upload the new log .

 

[boweasel]

Rerun RogueKiller and select Delete after you clicked on Scan . Upload the new log .

chkdsk still running - about 65% through stage 4

 

[VistaKing]

After that is all done . Rerun RogueKiller and click on Delete

 

[boweasel]

After that is all done . Rerun RogueKiller and click on Delete

Before I update the BIOS? 'Cause I ain't done that yet...

 

[VistaKing]

You could do that before .

 

[boweasel]

be a while - < 20% on stage 5 (had to do the math - their pct indicators suck).

 

[VistaKing]

Its no rush . Take your time . You have a big drive

 

[boweasel]

Chkdsk finished but I wasn't around to see what displayed - I suspect nothing since nothing showed up until I left - at about the 50% mark of stage 5.

Updated the BIOS.

Reran RogueKiller and have attached the log. It looks like the Zero Access trojan has FINALLY been removed, but it made no difference in the performance of IE10. I've had to switch to Chrome to type this - the IE10 homepage of MSN would almost always display, but when I would click on this topic, which I'd set as a Favorite in IE, I got about 9 instances of 'This page cannot be displayed'. Then I rebooted and got 5 more before I decided to use Chrome.

I've disabled every IE add-on and reset the browser. It makes no difference.

 

[boweasel]

Ran the MiniToolBox again, since I began having gonnection issues with Chrome

 

[VistaKing]

Lets try this

Copy and paste the code below into Notepad. To open Notepad, click on rb: . Inside

type notepad and then press <ENTER> button .

@Echo off
pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc
attrib -h -s -r hosts
echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS
attrib +r +h +s hosts
popd
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh winsock reset all
netsh int ip reset all
cls
echo Script finished.
pause
del %0

In Notepad, click File and then Save. Type reset.bat inside file name section . Change Save as Type to All Files, and then save the file to your desktop. After the file is saved, right click on the RESET.bat choose

. Once it's finished running, restart your computer. Check to see if your Internet connection is restored.

Who is our ISP ? ( Internet Service Provider )

 

[boweasel]

Actually this may be much ado about nothing....

Both in IE10 and Chrome I'd saved whatever page of this thread was current as a Favorite (or Bookmark in Chrome). Maybe the browsers weren't particularly happy with that arrangement, because as soon as I changed the bookmarks to the Performance and Maintenance page of the forum both browsers seem to work just fine.

I just don't get why continuing to hit the Refresh button in IE would eventually bring up the page of this thread that I'd bookmarked.

Our ISP is called Windstream.

 

[VistaKing]

Did you do the step above ?

 

[boweasel]

Yes. I copied and pasted and ran the reset.bat as an admin from my desktop. But it made no difference in the IE problems. Only when I deleted the Favorite for this topic, and added one for the whole sub-category did IE10 start behaving.

I, of course. don't get it.

 

[VistaKing]

reset IE

Click on rb: then type in Internet Options inside

, press Enter . click the Advanced tab click Reset

Restore Default.
In the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box, tap or click Reset

Select the Delete personal settings . click Close, and then tap or click OK

 

[boweasel]

reset IE

Click on rb: then type in Internet Options inside

, press Enter . click the Advanced tab click Reset

Restore Default.
In the Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box, tap or click Reset

Select the Delete personal settings . click Close, and then tap or click OK

Already done that (before the reset.bat), but I'll do it again.

 

[VistaKing]

Click here DDS

:ar: Click on Download Now button

:ar: When the download is complete . Drag the DDS program from the Downloads folder to your Desktop

:ar: Double click the DDS icon on the Desktop then click the Run button to run the tool.

:ar: Place a check next to attach.txt and click Start . When done, DDS will open two logs

• DDS.txt
• Attach.txt

:ar: Save two logs onto your desktop and upload them with your reply

How To Upload a File
Click on the Go Advanced button under the Message box . Scroll down to Additional Options then click on Manage Attachments in the Attach Files sections . Click the Browse button locate the file then click on the Open button . In the Upload File from your Computer section click on the Upload button . Wait until it finishes uploading then close the window . Then click Submit Reply .

 

[boweasel]

Yeah, there's still something wrong with both browsers. Changing the favorite / bookmark was only fool's gold.

 

[VistaKing]

Can you rerun RogueKiller and Upload the log after you pressed Scan ?