Athlon 1.6/ 512 mb ram/ XP Home/ 40 GB HD with 20 Gb free.
Have run Spybot and deleted all red entries.
Have run Adaware and deleted all entries.
Over the last few days whenever I try to scan with Norton AV (2003 updated) the CPU usage slowly increases as the scan progresses until it reaches 100%, at which point the PC locks up.
This lockup at 100% cpu usage does not always occur at the same point.
It is usually somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of a full scan.
On one occasion it occured when running Adaware before the scan was complete.
It will also occur running some other programs, particularly if I have two or three windows open at once
The only way I can get out of the situation is to Reset, and when it boots up again cpu usage will still be over 95% with nothing running, so I Turnoff in the normal way and wait for an hour or two.
Have run Hijackthis but when I try to submit the log I get this message
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