**WARNING** To People Suddenly Getting High GPU Usage While Idle!

[borley]

Hi this has been mentioned in another thread but as it affects GPU's people might not see that thread so i made this one.
Basicly i noticed my fan on my Gigabyte 7970 was going crazy on my desktop so i thought it might be the newest driver 13.3!
But looked at Afterburner and my temps were going over 60c and GPU usage was at 99% on desktop
After a bit of searching i looked at my start up programs and noticed one i have never seen before or knew what it was, iehighutil.exe!
Googled and instantly found many people had come across this in the last week, its a script thats something to do with hacking bitcoins!
Anyway i disabled it and deleted C:Temporary where its located but still found that didn't fix it.
So used a program someone else suggested http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/
Its now fine
So please check your start up processes to see if iehighutil.exe is there
This is a link to the other thread just in case more help and suggestions are made in that thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=23972375#post23972375

 

[khevolution]

i must admit i cam across this a couple of weeks ago, a scan of malware bytes seem to solve the problem though

 

[borley]

i must admit i cam across this a couple of weeks ago, a scan of malware bytes seem to solve the problem though

Hi glad too hear, some people are saying even their up to date protection isn't detecting it

 

[KIA]

some people are saying even their up to date protection isn't detecting it

This shouldn't come as a surprise. It probably exploited a vulnerability in out of date software on your machine.

 

[Suarez7]

It's a bitcoin farmer, people have even RMA'd their cards thinking it was a hardware issue lol.

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

Sounds like you've been looking at naughty sites again.

No erratic behaviour from my 6850 but i'll have a check when I get home just to make sure, better safe then sorry.

Cheers for the heads up.

 

[Gregster]

Not 100% on this but it has been linked with Java updates, so just be careful when installing any Java related updates.

 

[KIA]

Not 100% on this but it has been linked with Java updates, so just be careful when installing any Java related updates.

Not installing Java updates is the big issue. It's safe to install all Java updates as long as they're obtained from java.com or via the Update utility (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Java (32bit)\Java Control Panel\Update).

 

[borley]

Not installing Java updates is the big issue. It's safe to install all Java updates as long as they're obtained from java.com or via the Update utility (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Java (32bit)\Java Control Panel\Update).

Says i have the latest version

 

[Wucked]

I read that its also linked with cracked versions of Crysis 3 and Tombraider.

 

[Rroff]

I read that its also linked with cracked versions of Crysis 3 and Tombraider.

Starting to wonder about some of the complaints of poor performance and constant crashing in TR as its (the pirate version) been linked as a source of this malware and would likely cause those symptoms.

 

[KIA]

Says i have the latest version

There's a bunch of other stuff to check. Secunia PSI will help you with this.

 

[GoblinKingUK]

I dont have anything in startup but I just checked Task Manager and i have something called 'ielowutil' loaded.. is that the same thing?

 

[BaDBoY_uK]

Thanks!!!!!

 

[The__Malteser]

I dont have anything in startup but I just checked Task Manager and i have something called 'ielowutil' loaded.. is that the same thing?

YES! Well, kind of. It is a very bad piece of software to have on your machine! REMOVE IMMEDIATELY!!

Spoiler

According to a google search, its related to internet explorer, and its not malicious in any way. But you do need to stop using IE, as it is terrible, and use chrome.

 

[GoblinKingUK]

LOL

 

[RetrogamerX]

According to a google search, its related to internet explorer, and its not malicious in any way. But you do need to stop using IE, as it is terrible, and use chrome

Agree wholeheartedly.

 

[BaDBoY_uK]

Thanks for the help. Solved my problems

 

[Diagro]

for some reason when ever i leave my pc alone and the screen shuts off, the GPU is used 30% untill i come back ....

 

[borley]

Thanks for the help. Solved my problems

Is that true or sarcasm?