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Make sure you're displaying processes from all users. Servicehost in particular chows up the RAM.

I am.

EDIT: It seems not to be a memory leak over time - instead it's as though a substantial chunk of memory isn't even there from startup onward. CPU and hard drive are normal/healthy, too - there's just a big RAM problem.

EDIT 2: I think I've solved at least one of the problems. Will keep an eye on things from here.

Antivirus also turned up negative, meanwhile I'm having RAM issues again (CPU's fine). While I'm not discounting the possibility of malware completely, the problem might be a memory leak. I have a few lines of evidence - it seems to get worse the longer the computer runs, the freezing only kicks in when I'm doing RAM-heavy things like multiple Chrome tabs or MS Office (seriously Microsoft, how do you fuck up a word processor), and Chrome is having its own problems with unresponsive pages/cache loading.

Given this, how should I trace the source of the possible leak?

So I've been having some serious computer issues for the last day or so. Yesterday it started temporarily freezing at semi-regular intervals and basic things like restarting didn't fix it. I slogged through it until I noticed that my CPU and RAM usage were way higher than they should be, and figured I must have some kind of virus. However, I ran MWB (most recent update, by the way) multiple times and it's picked up nothing. I'm still thinking "malware" is the most parsimonious explanation but that result is a bit strange. I also haven't experienced any negative effects other than the freezing and CPU/RAM usage.

Next I tried booting in safe mode; that solved the CPU nd memory issues, but the freezing is still happening (albeit less frequently). So now I'm looking for advice on two fronts:

1) Is it malware or just an accidental hardware/software problem?
2) In either  case, what's the best way to fix it?

(Computer is a mid-range Dell laptop with the most recent version of Windows 7, if that helps)

EDIT: Updates
-Realizing that MWB isn't the end-all-be-all of malware detectors, I also ran adwcleaner and it also didn't detect anything. Still not a definitive no, but the fact that neither program detected anything suggests that if there is malware tucked away somewhere it's some combination of new, uncommon, or well-hidden.
-Still in safe mode right now; computer appears to work fine aside from some stuff (MS Office, audio drivers) not working for presumably safe mode-related reasons. I spoke too soon about it still freezing; that only happened once, for apparently unrelated reasons.

Went out walking in the snow and it was beautiful.  And deep!  And the gas station was still open so I do have spam now, just in case.
Meanwhile I stewed some chicken livers, once the rice is done I'll have those.  Feeling quite buzzed from exercise and beautiful nature!

Reason 1billion why I'm glad I left home:  Up here it actually snows instead of freezing rain and sleet.

Walking through snow... eating spam, rice, and chicken livers... left home... are you homeless, into extreme camping, or some kind of wandering sage type? There's clearly a story here.

Quote from: greatorder on January 12, 2016, 03:09:58 pm

Quote from: MaximumZero on January 12, 2016, 03:07:47 pm

The boss has told me that if this guy attacks me, I'm to defend myself, and that he kind of wants to see it.

Code for 'Tell me or set up a camera'

Code? No, he'd be right there with his phone yelling something about worldstar hiphop.

WOOORRRLD STAAARRR

... you're applying logic to the biological traits of fire-breathing dragons. I think you need to take a step back and reconsider some things.

He's making a 100% science-based dragon MMO!

Quote from: Akura on January 06, 2016, 06:02:36 pm

Got an award at work today, their "Employee who made a difference last week" award. Got a print-out paper plaque that was supposed to be in color but the color printer was down, and a pin.

What's it feel like to make a difference at work?  I spend most of my time at work posting here.