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I would question the "a something" app. If you can see it in task manager and see that it is the app that is using all the processing time then shut it down and see what happens. Check with msconfig and disable it from your startup.

Post back here with more details on this phantom app. It might be spyware or a virus or, if it is a valid app it might be misconfigured.

Cheers.

RW

Also I think it is worth noting that it is not possible for SP2 to be auto-installed. It requires a user with administrative privileges to agree to the EULA first.

Your problem is far more likely to be caused by some sort of malware.

This happened on one of my PCs. It normally is easy to uninstall SP2 (control panel, add remove programs, move down to sp2 and select remove). Do that preferably in safe mode, as the PC will be running at an acceptable speed then. Before uninstalling SP2, think of adding some RAM, this can make a real big differance in peformance, and ram is cheap.

The a something program is AVX.EXE
when task stopped it restarts itself
adware/spyware program doesnt pick it up
misconfig doesnt work as it doesnt show up in startup.
all3 answers were tried prior to submission of question.
any thoughts

See my note below
The process is avw.exe
It is not located by adware or spyware
It does not respond to end task
It cannot be seen using misconfig
It is not listed in Symantec Lists