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Oh Microsoft
13 years ago
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You are a dirty dirty whore. When I turn features and services off, I expect them to remain off. When Windows Defender is disabled (because I a) trust myself not to download stupid stuff b) have everything remotely backed up and c) am familiar with correcting malware infections) I expect your msmpeng.exe service to remain off as well.
I found out where all of my CPU was going though :D That little gem would spike to 90% CPU usage whenever I load up screencamera to stream my desktop.
Just dredging my computer with all sorts of scanning programs at the moment to make sure that the process I nuked wasn't cleverly disguised malware. :i
I found out where all of my CPU was going though :D That little gem would spike to 90% CPU usage whenever I load up screencamera to stream my desktop.
Just dredging my computer with all sorts of scanning programs at the moment to make sure that the process I nuked wasn't cleverly disguised malware. :i
also, Windows Defender? what? you still have Vista? if you have windows 7 i strongly suggest uninstalling that and getting Security Essentials from the updates
One quick google search would have informed you that msmpeng.exe is the active task engine used by both Windows Defender -and- Microsoft Security Essentials. Both of which I had disabled at the administrator level on Windows 7 Ultimate and that I had to disable at the services level.
I still haven't been able to uninstall it completely so I can put it back on again.
Then… there's the Windows 7 start screen. After Windows updates, it reverts back to the Vista style. I fix it and it works until the next Windows update.