Virus or not?

[ubercool]

Hi

As soon as I started the task managher after turning my laptop on it showed my CPU usage as almost 50% and then the usage gradually reduced to 6 to 20%. Here is a snapshot of my task manager screen taken few minutes after starting , I see there are a lot of svchost.exe files running. Could there be a virus on my system?

 

[OhSnapWord]

Svchost.exe is not malicious. It is actually a system file that is responsible for managing services that run in the background.

 

[setishock]

Got 14 running on mine. Like OhSnapWord said, it's not malicious.

 

[techi3]

It can be used for malicious purposes though. If a bad guy was to gain access to your computer he could run executable files in the background like OhSnapWord mentioned. For example: he could run the command line without you knowing it since it takes practically no power to operate.

 

[ubercool]

What is the ideal percentage of CPU and memory usage that should be when a computer starts?

 

[dale]

It depends.

 

[BK_123]

If you have heaps of program's that need to startup after the computer has booted up then its hard to determine, I have a lot of program's in my laptop that need to launch after she's booted and she takes a few minutes before she's ready to rumble whereas my Dell has hardly anything only Avast antivirus and loads very quick..