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[Owen Smith]

msmpeng.exe goes mad occasionally consuming 100% cpu, usually after scanning the entire hard disc. A quick reboot of the machine fixes it without compromising security. Your fix leaves you wide open, you have disabled your virus scanner unless you have others running. But that would mean you would have had multiple running previously, which isn't a good idea either.

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Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

> On 6 Jun 2015, at 16:41, CJB <chrisjbrady at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for the links. Yes - it was a resources issue. Now Gip
> flies, and other web pages open up immediately.
> 
> There were two culprits - hogging 100% of the cpu - that I've now got rid of.
> 
> Using Task manager and Resource Manager the hogs were:
> 
> 1/ msmpeng.exe - an anti-malware executable from MSE or MS Defender.
> Using MSConfig this has now been disabled - never to be restarted; and
> 
> 2/ an Abode Acrobat plugin for Chrome - two versions of which were
> running and both hogging 100% of the cpu. These have now been closed
> down.
> 
> No wonder nothing else ojuld run, the above apps were causing the cpu
> to remain at 100%, with a huge amount of disk accessing which I
> presume was the swap file paging.
> 
> Now all is well - and I can even download Springwatch!!!
> 
> CJB.
> 
>> On 06/06/2015, Vangelis forthnet <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
>>> On Fri Jun 5 23:29:47 BST 2015, CJB wrote:
>>> 
>>> Things were great yesterday (Thursday)
>>> (snip)
>>> Sadly things today (Friday) have not gone well.
>> 
>> I'm out of my depth here (???) - I was about to say
>> that only YOU know what could have changed in your
>> system between yesterday and today (e.g. MS updates,
>> MSE definitions files, other AntiVirus used definition
>> updates etc.) when I just saw a quasi-relevant post on
>> the Support Forum:
>> https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/web-pvr-manager-fails-to-fork-after-a-day-or-so/
>> (one system also being Win7).
>> Do not have a Win7 box here to try
>> and reproduce...
>> Given the user share of Win7,
>> if this is a more general issue, expect
>> more reports in the list/forum...
>> 
>> In the meantime, can you ping localhost?
>> In an administrator command prompt window
>> (Start -> "Start search field" type: cmd ->
>> right click the "cmd.exe" result and run as admin ->
>> this opens:
>> C:\Windows\system32>
>> type: "ping localhost" (without quotes), if
>> localhost (i.e. your own computer) is running,
>> you'll get something like:
>> 
>> Pinging (name of PC) [::1] from ::1 with 32 bytes of data:
>> Reply from ::1: time<1ms
>> Reply from ::1: time<1ms
>> Reply from ::1: time<1ms
>> Reply from ::1: time<1ms
>> 
>> Ping statistics for ::1:
>>    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
>> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>>    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
>> 
>> C:\Windows\system32>
>> 
>> It may also be that another app on your machine
>> is using port 1935, so there might be a port conflict...
>> Or for whatever reason port 1935 may have been
>> blocked (firewall rule?)
>> As a longshot, please also try
>> http://stackoverflow.com/a/873778
>> (backup your hosts file first:
>> C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
>> - if you mess it up
>> you'll lose all internet connections...
>> Search the net on how to enable hosts
>> file editing on Win7)
>> 
>>> This issue has effectively stopped me
>>> from downloading everything and anything.
>> 
>> This is an over-dramatised hyperbole...
>> Have you tried the CLI? If it works
>> (most probably), it can do the same (and much
>> more) as the GUI - ample instructions on
>> how to use the CLI on the GiP Wiki:
>> 
>> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#command-usage
>> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/manpage
>> 
>> If the CLI doesn't work at all,
>> then you've got a serious problem on your hands...
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> 
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