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thank you for everything, man! After scouring the Internet all day I figured out the problem - it wasn't any Malware, or enen anything on MY part, but a faulty Microsoft update. It was something to do with Update KB2670838 and IE10. All I had to do was uninstall Update KB2670838, and now everything is running like butter. there's more on it here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/why-does-dllhostexe-com-surrogate-consumes-memory/bd7e42bb-802d-4eb9-95b2-2bb6b566996d?page=1&tm=1373072649374 if anyone else has this dllhost.exe problem! thank you so much for your time and effort, Maurice!

i ran Malwarebytes again, this time instead of quick scan I did full scan. It found: HackTool.Wpakill PUP.Hacktool.Patcher should I remove them?

i mean NOW (not 'not'), sorry!

ram usage is not at 60% with 2 Chrome tabs open. That's 10% more than usual, I think.

sorry, you weren't replying with anything and I was getting antsy. anyway, I noticed the problem seemed to occur after transferring some video files to my Walkman, last night. And then it happened again this morning when I did the same thing.

someone on another forum said it could be that the Walkman's flash memory is failing or maybe, it's infected? Could that be a possibility?

here the log reports are again, after running DDS and RK again on the slowed down computer. RKreport0_S_07052013_085032.txt Attach2.txt DDS2.txt

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I just connected my Walkman MP3 player to the computer and transferred some files (I did the same thing last night) and now the dllhost is going crazy again. CPU usage is at 26-30% and RAM is at 90+%... What the heck is going on? This has never happened before. My laptop is so slow I'm posting from my iPad.

here you go! RogueKiller V8.6.2 _x64_ [Jul 2 2013] by Tigzy mail : tigzyRK<at>gmail<dot>com Blog : http://tigzyrk.blogspot.com/ Operating System : Windows 7 (6.1.7601 Service Pack 1) 64 bits version Started in : Normal mode User : User [Admin rights] Mode : Scan -- Date : 07/05/2013 07:01:48 | ARK || FAK || MBR | ¤¤¤ Bad processes : 1 ¤¤¤ [sUSP PATH] TouchFreeze.exe -- C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\TouchFreeze\TouchFreeze.exe [-] -> KILLED [TermProc] ¤¤¤ Registry Entries : 10 ¤¤¤ [RUN][sUSP PATH] HKCU\[...]\Run : TouchFreeze (C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\TouchFreeze\TouchFreeze.exe [-]) -> FOUND [RUN][sUSP PATH] HKUS\S-1-5-21-1323457348-3409936792-940866104-1000\[...]\Run : TouchFreeze (C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\TouchFreeze\TouchFreeze.exe [-]) -> FOUND [RUN][sUSP PATH] HKLM\[...]\Wow6432Node\[...]\RunOnce : (cleanup) (rundll32.exe "C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (portable)\cleanup.dll",ProcessCleanupScript "C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (portable)" [x][7][x][-]) -> FOUND [HJ POL] HKLM\[...]\System : ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin (0) -> FOUND [HJ POL] HKLM\[...]\System : EnableLUA (0) -> FOUND [HJ POL] HKLM\[...]\Wow6432Node\[...]\System : ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin (0) -> FOUND [HJ POL] HKLM\[...]\Wow6432Node\[...]\System : EnableLUA (0) -> FOUND [HJ SMENU] HKCU\[...]\Advanced : Start_TrackProgs (0) -> FOUND [HJ DESK] HKLM\[...]\NewStartPanel : {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} (1) -> FOUND [HJ DESK] HKLM\[...]\NewStartPanel : {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} (1) -> FOUND ¤¤¤ Scheduled tasks : 0 ¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ Startup Entries : 0 ¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ Web browsers : 0 ¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ Particular Files / Folders: ¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ Driver : [NOT LOADED 0x0] ¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ External Hives: ¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ Infection : ¤¤¤ ¤¤¤ HOSTS File: ¤¤¤ --> %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ¤¤¤ MBR Check: ¤¤¤ +++++ PhysicalDrive0: SAMSUNG MZMPC032HBCD-000L1 ATA Device +++++ --- User --- [MBR] 4d71ca5316c226915ac50db9b6f5998c [bSP] f3c5b06b7bd6cd1c27831cf76c704721 : Empty MBR Code Partition table: User = LL1 ... OK! User = LL2 ... OK! +++++ PhysicalDrive1: SAMSUNG MZMPC032HBCD-000L1 ATA Device +++++ --- User --- [MBR] 4d3c1472209f917ef1cd7e48513532f6 [bSP] a8a7eced5ab116142fa4447e91a82583 : Windows 7/8 MBR Code Partition table: 0 - [ACTIVE] NTFS (0x07) [VISIBLE] Offset (sectors): 2048 | Size: 100 Mo 1 - [XXXXXX] NTFS (0x07) [VISIBLE] Offset (sectors): 206848 | Size: 476838 Mo User = LL1 ... OK! User = LL2 ... OK! Finished : << RKreport[0]_S_07052013_070148.txt >>

hi, thank you for the welcome + help! :-D I did exactly as you've said, and it didn't find anything. Should I do anything else?

hello, earlier my dllhost.exe was using all my memory. I thought it was suspicious, so I tried to install and run Malawarebytes when my screen went black. I did a manual/forced restart into safe mode with networking. I ran Malawarebytes and it found 3 PUP files, which I removed and restated like normal. Everything seems to be back to normal, but RAM usage is at 59% running Chrome, when usually it's at about 40-42% any insight, help would be great! Thank you also, CPU usage spikes 30-50% when I open Chrome... dds.txt attach.txt