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Is there a bug in the Windows XP Task manager?

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/is-there-a-bug-in-the-windows-xp-task-manager.95624/

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jitun Original post #1
Aug 14, 2008 at 6:46 PM
The CPU usage of my system running on Intel P4 HT,1GB DDR2 RAM. The process list doesn't shows any usage of the CPU and it is 99% idle but the graph shows it is being used 25% all the time. Can anyone has a explanation for this or i should assume that this is just another Microsoft bug.

PS : - Please don't waste your as well as my time by saying it is photoshopped as you can see the photoshop.exe process running in the process list. Since I don't had Snagit and any other screen capture program as i had just installed the OS and the essential softwares I used print screen to take screenshots then pasted and edited them in Photoshop.

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The Hijackthis log file is also attached. I am using NOD32 antivirus and there was no rootkit
Faun
Faun #2
Aug 14, 2008 at 6:56 PM
^^Attachment failed
dheeraj_kumar
Aug 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM
Try RootKitRevealer from sysinternals.com because this seems like a badly programmed rootkit to me.