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Some cryptomining malware is able to detect when you open Task Manager, and then stop what it is doing in order to hide itself until you close it. That's my first guess.
Try Process Hacker.
you can use NtQuerySystemInformation to acquire the cycle time of each process
if you are comfortable reading c code, check out process hacker's source code
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/doc/procprv_8c_source.html
MsMpEng.exe is legit, that's part of Windows Defender, but yeah the other one was definitely fake. Personally, I use a different Task Manager called Process Hacker and from there you can enable a "Command Line" column, and see where programs are being run from. You can also see what process started what, as programs are in a tree style format. You will definitely see the malware in a non legit folder, probably the temp files, which is a dead giveaway that the program is malware.
You definitely should run some other anti-virus or anti-malware programs and do a deep scan to see if there isn't anything else on your system.
This will come in handy. Borderless windowed mode, too, helps a lot. If you let PH replace your taskmanager you can call it from CTRL-ALT-DEL, leave it up in taskbar and mouse over to it when 3d is hung and stole screen, etc
No more applications refusing to be closed because they're special snowflakes.
Using Process Hacker I was able to see the miner without it stopping by itself when I opened the Task Manager, I found the process using too much resources when I wasn’t even mining, if you hover the process it shows you the location and if it runs a command line, which one, so I went to the location, terminated the top process with all the tree processes, and deleted it from my PC. There is probably still some root on my PC or something that I can’t see but I haven’t seen any activity yet, I recommend resetting the PC, I just didn’t do it because I’m too lazy to reinstall everything.
This is an excellent post.
Just wanted to add that you can use Process Hacker 2 to monitor cycle wasting and excessive context switching of individual application threads.
PH2 is an invaluable application, and I'd suggest installing it to anyone interested in submitting more contextual and slightly more useful bug reports.
per latest method to gather the autopatchhk link.
- you need process hacker
- run genshin impact launcher.exe on background (post update a.k.a when the launcher.exe allows you to download newer patch like 1.1.1 in future)
- open process hacker
- looks for launcher.exe with paimon icon
- right click > properties > memory tab
- click "Strings" button form on top right > string search box > press "OK"
- click "Filter" button bottom left > Contains.. > "autopatch" keyword in the search box.
You should be able to see the official result download link stated with one of the many addresses. pic for clarity
IMPORTANT: some games will deem process hacker as malicious tool and could result you as ban.. (idk about the details so let's close your process hacker once you finished using it.)
Fíjate si no estás haciendo nada y el cpu está al palo
Podes ver procesos ocultos con https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/
Igual los nuevos mineros dejan de minar cuando detectan que abrís un examinador de procesos, precisamente para ocultarse
That screenshot is nearly 3 months old.
Got anything newer?
40.67.254.36 belongs to Microsoft and is one of the IP addresses that make up the Windows Notification Service.
Access port 443 on that IP (the one your firewall/IDS says the RST packets are coming from) and you'll be presented with a valid certificate for *.wns.windows.com (which will be rejected because the certificate is for the domain name only, not the IP).
This makes all the information in the background of the screenshot pretty much a red herring from an overzealous security program.
107.79.227.34 belongs to AT&T Mobility and appears to be a user in/near Atlanta.
That's kind of interesting.
Process Explorer or Process Hacker would be able to give you the full command line used to start the rundll32.exe process, the startup directory, and the open file handles for the process, so you could track down what made that connection attempt.
Again, if the screenshot weren't showing 3-month-old data.
Freezes and stutters in F4 can be a lot of different things, in my experience fucking with mipmap use or texture load distance can cause it.
If you're using the 58gb HD DLC on a single, mechanical drive you'll probably stutter a lot, too.
For example (Don't use this, unless you know what you're doing.):
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500 iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000 iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500 iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
Leads to: this for me with 32gb of ram and two 8gb video cards, with F4 on it 's own raid array. Despite it being playable with high average FPS it stutters as it's constantly jackhammering my drives for textures it's not, and never will properly preload.
Godrays can do it, also. To check that just open the console and type gr off, if it stops lagging and stuttering, it's their fault.
Another wildly common issue is mods that change trees, move cars, add doors, building interiors and basically any sort of world edit breaking the precomb/vis stuff, and hardware doesn't exist yet to handle F4 at tolerable FPS in the denser bits of boston without it.
One more thing to check is GPU drivers, they could be crashing and recovering. Does F4 freeze (Use this to check ram load, CPU utilization) as in, it's CPU usage drops for like 2% for the duration, then once it recovers it's back to normal, or does the screen go black and reappear?
The only time I've had W10 flag something, it marked patchers as W.32/HackTool and keygens as W.32/Keygen, as expected. I manually allow these apps to run for my installs and run Process Hacker after a post-install reboot to make sure nothing got left behind.
Install process hacker 2 from https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/downloads.php
Right click on the process entry within process list and select Properties. Look for "Parent" which could reveal what is causing the Visual Basic Command within cmd prompt.
Do you have Nvidia Optimus by any chance?
I remember my friend having the same problem with other games, turns out that running anything in fullscreen would automatically switch to his integrated gpu and switch back to his nvidia gpu when alt+tabbed back to desktop.
If not, I would try using process hacker to change SoT.exe priority to High and see if that does something.
You seem to have a point on the arrow direction. So you're not able to see what is using the CPU time there.
You might be better able to identify the problematic processes using Process Hacker.
Have you tried using a separate process examiner like Process Hacker or Process Explorer?
ProcessHacker Nightly. https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/nightly.php
After installation, in the Options set it as default Task Manager.
One of the really neat things is it gives you managed language statistics. Such as garbage collections and JIT performance, Locks, etc.
https://i.imgur.com/mMKsm0x.png
Last official build was in 2016. These are nightly builds, but I literally been using it for 5 years (and updates every week) and by some miracle I've never once encountered a bug. I actually don't know why they don't release an official build at this point.
install the program called process hacker 2. start the process hacker 2 program and go to where it says "network" and watch the processes and see what processes are sending you requests to remote addresses.
observe the file paths of the processes that request information to ip addresses or domains
if you want to close a connection right click and close.
ways to protect yourself
- inspect each active process on the pc
- check which processes are spending more CPU or memory in the background in Task Manager
Let me recommend an app called Process Hacker, which will replace your Task Manager with a beefier version. I used it to find and disable useless processes running in the background that were soaking up my CPU cycles; then I used it to permanently set Noita.exe to run in High Priority.
That said, my laptop is on the low end of minimum spec requirements, and I only play vanilla. Occasionally, the audio will lag or drop, which is my cue to save the game and quit for awhile before it crashes.
Hey /u/Cubiky_Cube, I have/had the same issue.
I still haven't managed to remove some services related to this program because it somehow manages to install itself in a way that makes it very hard to remove it, but the files are deleted and it's not able to run the services any more.
- Find the Process in the task manager (It was listed under "Reason ...[something something]")
- find the folder that contains the process' exe from the context menu (should be %ProgramFiles%\RAV<somethingsomething>)
- kill process exe with Process Hacker 2 (only thing that worked for me, everything else was "access denied")
- delete folder that contains it, need to be relatively quick before the service restarts but it was possible to do it manually in my case
The folder also had an uninstaller in it, but that didn't do anything in my case.
Zkontroluj PC nějakým dobrým antivirem. Např Malwarebytes nebo ESET Tady to týpkovi ten klíč vracelo jedno exe. Jestli to problém nevyřeší, stáhni si ProcessHacker je to takovej podrobnější Task Manager.
Can you try using https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ to see what is actually killing memory in real time?
Disable all non-MS services, disable all startup items. See if anything changes. Slowly re-introduce them.
If all else fails, do a clean install of Windows - I used to do it every 30 days back in the day.
> -Windows is installed on the SSD, but the SSD is full and the HDD is just a cheap one so maybe windows is bugging out because the C: drive (SSD) is full?
Define full. Literally?
Anyways, I would recommend running a live Linux distro to test the port functionality. If I ever need a sanity check on whether hardware is working, I test it under Linux and Windows.
> i can hear one of my fans spinning really fast but then when windows starts to boot it returns to regular speed...
This is normal within reason.
> Then, about two days later, my computer started going really really slow and after about 4 or 5 minutes of use, it just completely freezes up and the only thing that works is the mouse.
This could be anything, really. Start by disabling all NON MICROSOFT services, and even some MS ones unless you use them: https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/windows-10-unnecessary-services-you-can-disable-safely/
Disable all non-ms apps on startup: https://www.howtogeek.com/74523/how-to-disable-startup-programs-in-windows/
What is your memory usage? Try https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ for more information.
>I laughed my ass off when I saw "Process Hacker".
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ - it's the best and most versatile alternative process monitor for windows, superior even to process explorer.
That's not the issue here, "WayNotana.exe" is.
>Dude needs to launch to dos and back up personal files then format and reinstall windows.
I'm reasonably sure that there is no version of Process Hacker that runs on Windows ME or lower. Maybe this dude needs to learn what they are talking about.
> He's probably just trolling though and wrote a quick prompt.
See, that's where we differ. When I hear someone spout stupid things like this, I don't really see a tangible difference between being this stupid or supposedly pretending to be this stupid.
At 7:40 Dave mentions how there is room for more features, such as finding which processes have locked a particular file. There is a more powerful version of Task Manager called Process Hacker that has such features.
Open task manager and go to processes tab and details tab and check them one by one to see if you can find something suspicious.
There are 2 possibilities , one that it just reduces the usage when you open the task manager and the other one the process gets killed when you open it .
Another thing you can do is to go at the Startup tab on task manager and see if you can find something there .
Also in your search bar type task scheduler and after click on Task Scheduler Library and check them one by one again to see if you can find something suspicious .
If you still didn't find anything you can download Process Hacker -> https://processhacker.sourceforge.io -> install it -> open the program -> go to every process -> right click -> Properties -> Memory -> Strings and see if you can find something there .
If its a miner there will probably be some clear indications when you open the strings, like ( main pool is , cryptosomething , monero smthing , btc , cryptonight , nicehash , stratum etc. )
I thought Process Explorer had it as well but perhaps it doesn't.
In Process Hacker 2 it is a "Modules" tab in the properties.
Download for that program can be found here
Download process hacker 3 https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/nightly.php
It has instrumentation for dotnet processes built in that has no overhead to the process you're observing. With it you can see various stats such as allocation rates, GC time and counts, memory allocations in generations, number of locks and lock contention, JIT stats, etc
Try Process Explorer or Process hacker if nothing shows up there and you still suspect things format and start over with a fresh install
Nu folosesc un antivirus care ruleaza non stop.
Am Ublock Origin in browser, iar ce descarc daca mi se pare dubios le scanez inainte cu https://virusscan.jotti.org/ sau https://www.virustotal.com/, au fiecare cate o aplicatie ca sa verifici fisierele din windows explorer.
Ma mai uit la procese cu Process Hacker https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/nightly.php are o coloana in care le afiseaza scanate de virustotal.com
Hard Disk Overload probably.
It is not CPU related. Those yellow markers next to the D are a big hint. But with a SSD you really should not have that problem.
Get Process Hacker and show under the hood. The default Task Manager is absolutely terrible.
If you go into the readme and scroll down to Build, just click DLL and it will download. For injectors I recommend using Process Hacker. Run it in Administrator, open csgo, right click the csgo process in processhacker, go to misc, and click inject dll, select the otc dll and you should be good to go.
Task Manager is great - especially all the work you put into making sure it's always available!
But one you missed: I think before Windows 10, taskmgr.exe always started with its CPU priority set to High.
This was helpful when you were trying use it to kill a badly-behaved process eating up all your CPU time. I just wish it also had its I/O priority elevated as well - I've seen cases where it took several minutes of painfully slow, pixel-size jerks of the cursor to get a really bad process shut down.
If you like this kind of stuff, another great tool is Process Hacker.
I use it everyday have done for a few months and ive been fine injecting osiris stock no junk code of obfuscation in mm no ban
process hacker 2 the one you download from
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/downloads.php
not saying its safe
tendrías que mandar una pantalla con toooodos los procesos, urdenada por la columna de ram, fijate de darle al boón de abajo "mostrar detalles".
Mejor si podés hacer lo mismo pero con https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/
PD: ahí estás viendo solo la ram usada por tu usuario, falta la q consume "system"
Rather than having to do my hackjob workaround by doing something like:
- Grab the filename from MPC-HC title
- e.g.
Makoto-Touchofdeathcombo-encode.mp4 - Send Ctrl+q to open up the 'Quick-Open' Explorer Window
- Grab directory location from the text in the Explorer Window (using WindowSpy to find text)
- e.g.
Address: C:\Users\Bluesatin\Downloads
Ideally you'd want to just read the location of the file directly, potentially from the memory of the program.
Unfortunately it's a pain in the ass, and I don't really have any experience with it.
If you do want to push yourself and try to learn about doing that, you might want to look up stuff to do with finding memory offsets with CheatEngine (since it's commonly needed to be done for cheating), which is probably the easiest way to learn to do it as someone without much proper programming experience like me.
From a quick check with ProcessHacker and the memory tab + "String Search" button, it's clear the full file path is stored a bunch of times in memory. But the actual memory location changes every time, which is why you need to either scan the memory of the program for it, or find some sort of 'offset' from a known memory address. Unfortunately I don't know how to do either properly, and especially not with Autohotkey.
That's just how it works, it's showing you contents of registry locations, and disabling doesn't remove it from the registry
I've used Comodo Autorun Analyzer for years, it was a stand alone back when I started using it, then it became part of Comodo Cleaning Essentials, but installed separately, and apparently now comes with <strong>Comodo System Utilities</strong>, which I've not seen before.
Here's a pic of my Logon Entries in Comodo Autorun Analyzer;
Comodo Autorun Analyzer - Logon Entries - Imgur
Which is more than Task Manager's Start-up section shows, and still only one small section of what actually runs at start-up
I also replace Task Manager with <strong>Process Hacker</strong>, but I'm a Power User, and like all the extra options Process Hacker provides.
You can see all the registry locations, where the Start-up entries are located, and those registry entries are what you need to delete, if you really want to remove them, but I don't do that, as the pic shows.
I still just recommend, you do as I do.
Disabling stops them running at start-up, and that's all that actually matters, still being listed gives you the ability to re-enable them, if it's ever required, and removing can sometimes trigger them being rewritten in registry, thus enabling them again.
Does it happen in Windows' safe mode too?
Get Process Hacker and filter in for more detail to find what exactly is causing that CPU usage.
Without additional info it be anything from task(s) in Task Scheduler that gets triggered on AC to disk backup/system restore point to malware.
Came here to say this. Some rootkits can detect Windows Task Manager but aren't smart enough to catch all task managers. Process Hacker is my favorite (and free, and open source)
sorry it didnt fix it for you bro you can also try to download processhacker its a program that permanently sets the process priority set to below normal should fix the 100%cpu usage https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ be sure to save the priority soit doesnt reset each time you start the game its a shame i cant add in screenshots so i could give you a step by step also try to install nvidea 431.36 if you haven't updated to the latest one a redditor suggested this version https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/148584/en-us
good luck bro
US English: "Suspend Process". To resume, select "Resume Process".
Resource Monitor does not have a process tree display, which may pose challenges on which process/es to suspend. Third-party process managers such as Process Hacker may help.
Personally i just use a program called Process Hacker find the MW.exe and set as normal priority and theres a save for this program option too.
Those miners are a real pain in the ass.
So a few thoughts to start off.
1) Have you looked at the running processes on the computer while the temps are high? You can open up task manager, or a better choice would be Process Hacker, then leave the computer idle to see what happens. You may need to set your monitor to stay on so you can see when it takes places.
2) I know you already ran one scan with your AV. You may want to try running another AV and/or Windows Defender just to ensure coverage of all known threats and also to take advantage of the different heuristics offered by the different AV engines.
I've seen several cases where an advanced miner malware was able to evade detection through a number of complex obfuscation methodologies. Usually, this malware is targeted towards a specific entity. Doubtful you have it but it's possible it's in the wild now.
Let us know if you see any strange processes hogging the resources while you aren't touching it.
Oh, one last item: any chance your computer starts AV scanning itself when you aren't using it? It could be configured to do that.
Ye I solved the issue already. It was Process hacker
Funnily enough, their FAQ section mentions anti cheats:
> Is Process Hacker compatible with anti-cheat software such as BattlEye, EAC and VAC?
> Yes
The game seems fine with rivatuner, which does trigger some shitty anti cheats because of to hooking and with ghub, the new logitech mouse / keyboard software which also causes issues in some other games.
All of this makes me believe it detected "the hacking tool" because the name of the process contains the word "hack". It could also be because of possible hooking process hacker does, but in that case it should have detected rivatuner as well.
You can use something like Process Hacker to more clearly see the security privileges and parent-child process relationship, if you want to do some basic troubleshooting.
If you right click on the column bit you can enable the 'Elevation' column.
It's worth noting you might have to run the Process Hacker application with admin privileges to see the details for everything. You can do it before running or just go into the 'Hacker' top-menu and then 'Show Details for All Processes'.
File lock/permissions issue?
User directory shenanigans?
UAC shitware?
Antivirus shitware?
(Just my guess, but it's trying to save something or edit a log/config on exit but can't due to file permissions so everything just shits the bed.) Can see this sometimes with programs installed to default program directory and with UAC interaction.)
I can strongly recommend this for killing hung or misbehaving programs. Let it replace task manager so you can bring it up on CTRL-ALT-DEL and keep it running minimized to tray, then it'll be impossible for anything to refuse to be exited no matter what it is or why. Even if it trashes the render and steals your screen you can still windowskey, mouse over to the icon for processhacker and click it then arrow key and kill whatever is being a butt. Mouse responds and is there even if it's not visible during render/focus theft.
Here's what worked for me:
Download PH from https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/
Having DC open (and already in the voice channel) use PH to input and save a Real-time state in every DC thread (that's 2 steps, raise the state and then click save - that will tell PH to force that state in thread, if it drops);
Disable in-game DC layer;
Maximize DC and open R6;
Win.
since you didn't have any application running, it's most likely a system process. if the details tab in the task manager doesn't make it obvious which process is causing the spikes, i'd suggest using an alternative task manager. process hacker and microsoft's own process explorer display much more information than the default task manager, you should be finding the culprit with ease.
the spikes may also be caused by faulty drivers/hardware, can you try starting windows in safe mode and check if the problem persists?
(Cross post here cause pubg lite reddit is barely there right now)
So if you are using a mouse with more than 3 buttons you are at risk of a ban.
Process Hacker(https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/) and Logitech Gaming Software(https://support.logi.com/hc/en-001/articles/360025298053-Logitech-Gaming-Software) are "hacks".
Imo the anit-cheat is unnecessarily aggressive.
What is worse is that the warning, kick and game shutdown occurs AFTER entering a match when it can easily be done at the launcher or in the lobby.
Being warned for using "hacks" when you enter a match and then being banned the next day is fucking ridiculous.
So if you are using a mouse with more than 3 buttons you are at risk of a ban.
Process Hacker(https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/) and Logitech Gaming Software(https://support.logi.com/hc/en-001/articles/360025298053-Logitech-Gaming-Software) are "hacks".
Imo the anit-cheat is unnecessarily aggressive.
What is worse is that the warning, kick and game shutdown occurs AFTER entering a match when it can easily be done at the launcher or in the lobby.
Being warned for using "hacks" when you enter a match and then being banned the next day is fucking ridiculous.
Preallocation helps for both HDDs and SSDs - it's a file system thing and works regardless of the underlying medium.
I don't know what uTorrent does specifically. Also be aware that Windows has its own behavior with sparse files on NTFS drives. You could try monitoring disk write activity whilst preallocation occurs to see whether it's doing a full write (you can use Task Manager, or something like Process Hacker and see how much disk I/O is being caused).
My guess is that it doesn't. As long as it's allocating a sparse file, Windows doesn't materialize the file on disk, so there isn't any actual write during preallocation.
You download it from this website https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/downloads.php. Then you open Process Hacker 2 and CS:GO. You scroll down on ph2 until you see csgo.exe (it should be around the steam processes). You right click on csgo.exe and click miscellaneous>inject DLL. Then go to the location of the desired .dll cheat, then click open. Then it would be injected.
You download it from this website https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/downloads.php. Then you open Process Hacker 2 and CS:GO. You scroll down on ph2 until you see csgo.exe (it should be around the steam processes). You right click on csgo.exe and click miscellaneous>inject DLL. Then go to the location of the desired .dll cheat, then click open. Then it would be injected.
Here are my DX11 results if you are interested https://imgur.com/a/3QJEP3b
Still big jump in committed memory.
And please, don't be mean to Process Hacker, he is not simple Task Manager
This will save you a lot of trouble once you learn to use it.
Also, for NV, try Stutter Remover, just disable the placebo and use the fastexit option in the ini.
I’d get Process Hacker if I was you.
Just helps me understand every single process/service that’s running on my computer. Task Manager shoes a tiny portion compared to Process Hacker. Just my opinion.
I always keep a copy of Process Explorer in a $PATH directory. That way I can always
[⊞] + [R] "procexp" [Enter]
to get a much better task manager.
Process Hacker is open source and also good.