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I have an Acer, Aspire laptop. Windows 7-64bit. My CPU usage has been quite erratic for months now. It does get down to 4 or 5 % sometimes, but for the most part it's running between 50 and 100 % (I have a meter on my desktop). I've been running all sorts of cleaning tools and methods. I had McAfee antivirus for a year prior with minimal issues, but renewed it a few months ago and found it odd and annoying that it would want to update every single day while I was working. I assumed something was wrong with it, so I replaced it with a program I got free with another purchase from Best Buy...Trend Micro I think it was called. Well it appeared that Trend Micro was using more processes and CPU than McAfee. At that point I thought it'd be safer and cleaner to trade TM for Microsoft Security Essentials. I also have CCleaner installed and I run it every other day or so. I've also run r-kill and tdsskiller a few times but never found anything harmful. I've removed all unused programs that I felt comfortable were safe to remove. The latest thing I see that just seems weird is that, on start-up, a 'command prompt' icon will appear briefly on my task-bar then quickly move to 'start' 'recent'...I've never seen this before so it just seems weird, like a clue of some kind. Also in the last couple days, usually online, but also with offline Windows Solitair. Either the curser will freeze or the screen will freeze rendering the curser useless, sometimes just for a minute and sometimes I'll just 'end task'. I'm not a gamer, I mostly watch movies and videos....Try to, anyway! Thank you in advance for the help!
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Wow you are gluten for punishment Mcafee than TrendMicro ouch
Did you at the very least use Mcafee uninstaller ?
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS101331
You can get trendMicro's from here Mcafee's too
I personally use Panda free and Malwarebytes Premium.
