garywin
04-12-2005, 08:36 AM
I built a new system several weeks ago. I installed the OS and immediately installed Norton Security/Anti-Virus.
About a week later I noticed in Windows taskmanager that a job was running at 50% of CPU.
I killed it and about a minute later another job popped up and ran at 50%. Initial job was MSMSGS.exe
I had to reboot to stop continual popping up of diferent named executables. This continued for several days (usually starting sometime in the early morning). Tiring of this, I re-imaged the hard drive, reloaded the OS and Norton. Everthing fine for about a week and now I'm getting the same runaway jobs every morning. I know this sounds like a virus or whatever but I have run Norton anti-virus stuff a dozen times and it keeps coming back that everything is perfect. Obviously everything isn't perfect and I'm growing tired of rebooting this machine every morning to terminate these 50%CPU jobs. This morning I discoverd that I could get rid of the runaway job by logging off and logging back on. This elimated the rebooting but still its a pain and more importantly a job that I didn't start shouldn't be running on my system. Note: I've entered MSMSGS.exe in the Search e=engines and all I've really seen there is a hodgepodge of people disagreeing about Windows Messenger and the like.
I would like to get the actual fix from someone who has experienced this tribulation. Thanx!
About a week later I noticed in Windows taskmanager that a job was running at 50% of CPU.
I killed it and about a minute later another job popped up and ran at 50%. Initial job was MSMSGS.exe
I had to reboot to stop continual popping up of diferent named executables. This continued for several days (usually starting sometime in the early morning). Tiring of this, I re-imaged the hard drive, reloaded the OS and Norton. Everthing fine for about a week and now I'm getting the same runaway jobs every morning. I know this sounds like a virus or whatever but I have run Norton anti-virus stuff a dozen times and it keeps coming back that everything is perfect. Obviously everything isn't perfect and I'm growing tired of rebooting this machine every morning to terminate these 50%CPU jobs. This morning I discoverd that I could get rid of the runaway job by logging off and logging back on. This elimated the rebooting but still its a pain and more importantly a job that I didn't start shouldn't be running on my system. Note: I've entered MSMSGS.exe in the Search e=engines and all I've really seen there is a hodgepodge of people disagreeing about Windows Messenger and the like.
I would like to get the actual fix from someone who has experienced this tribulation. Thanx!