Hi guys. So I was playing maple when it started lagging tremendously, as if some frames just disappeared from existence or my computer is loading an enormous amount of work. It turned out to be the second case, my computer more than often works at 45% CPU usage. It stops occasionally for a short period then resume the lag. I smell a virus/spyware/malware.
I did some looking and found a process called "hopphurd.dll" which can't be found on google, and its description says:
Quote: "Provide a common interface and object model to access management information about operating system, devices, applications and services. If this service is stopped, most Windows-based software will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start."
That description seems to be trying to say to me: "I am a very important thing to your computer, do not attempt to delete, disable me."
Which, in my opinion, is a crystal-clear give-away.
For the sake of comparison, here's msn's description: "Windows Live Messenger - Signed In (Appear Offline)"
The process hopphurd.dll is located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\hopphurd.dll
It can't be seen with "display hidden items" turned on and "hide protected operating system file" turned off. Hence manual deletion is impossible unless someone has a tip to share. =)
To sum up, I've done all I can, including a few system scans with Spybot S&D. To date, I still don't know what that process is, what it does nor how to remove it.
Help will be greatly appreciated. =)
EDIT: Here's my Hijackthis log, hope it comes in handy.
Spoiler
Hijackthis Wrote: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157 http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/welcome.html http://appdirectory.messenger.msn.com/Ap...tPkMSN.cab http://fpdownload2.macromedia.com/get/sh...wflash.cab http://www.bitdefender.com - C:\Program Files\Common Files\BitDefender\BitDefender Arrakis Server\bin\Arrakis3.exe
