Desktop PC, Windows 2000 Pro, Recently installed SP4.
Problem appears to be svchost.exe/rcpss (as shown by running tlist) running constantly at 70-90%, unable to stop the process in Task Manager etc. Excessive demands on CPU (Pent. II 450) make normal diagnostics extremely difficult and slow.
Other symptoms:
netstat -a shows 30-40 open listening ports, with epmap opening more at a rate of about 1/sec.
In some applications, such as mmc modules, regedt32 and so on, Properties windows do not appear when a line item is double-clicked, yet when trying to close that application, receive an error message saying Properties Windows need to be closed first.
Regedt32 only stays open for about 15 seconds, then self closes. Not being able to hack the registry is a big obstacle obviously!
I ran a bunch of antivirus tools – – Norton, TrendMicro, Stinger as well as Ad-Aware, all came up clean.
Searching the web I came across several chat rooms where people were describing identical problems, all within the past month, but no-one has any answers. Suggestions ranged from Blaster variants to some evil Spyware from Microsoft….
I have another machine hooked to it and can net use and map drives to it, and in fact used this to run virus scans by proxy. I can also remotely manage .msc apps, but frankly don’t know what to try next.
So I’m game to try anything before I give up and re-image the thing!
thanks
Barry Shaw