**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

 

[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

 

[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

 

[borley]

Thanks for the help. Solved my problems

Is that true or sarcasm?