Hi there I am new to this forum as I found it on google while trying to solve my problems with CPU spikes, high memory usage and some webpages causing 100% usage.

Details are below
Acer Aspire 1680 with XP home install, using all acer drivers (apart from an updated 2200BG wireless driver cause the acer one cause BSOD when using utorrent or bitcomet)

Problems:
1: iexplore.exe using A LOT of memory right now its using 395,504k!!!
2: cpu spikes quite a lot. Causes mouse to pause momentarily, also when typing it causes letters to be missed while the spike is happening (strangly at the moment it seems ok)
3: Some webpages like hotmail, and some forums when typing a message cause 100% CPU load to the point I can't even type the message.

Can you please let me know what to run or do to give more detailed information.
Kind Regards
Sam

Is this a new problem?

Have you tried a System Restore?

Due to the very risky behavior of torrents you might want to start a new thread in the virus section here:

http://www.d-a-l.com/help/spyware-ad...tructions.html