CPU 99% windowsM_x64

justme123

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Hi, for the last month my CPU has very often 99% usage BUT only when I'm not looking.
And by that I mean, when I'm doing something for example in Excel, I can hear that my CPU goes to 99% but when I press ctrl+alt+delete, it stops before I could see what it is, so I left task manager running and was just watching the screen without touching anything, after a minute or two I saw it, its caused by process named "windowsM_x64". But when I moved the mouse to click on it, it immediately disappears.
Using a shortcut I managed to get a screenshot which you can see here:

http://postimg.org/image/gsw1ym95j/

Using the ESET(version 6.0.316.0) I scanned the computer, it found few things which were removed, but the problem persisted so I downloaded this:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx

it took nearly 6 hours but it didn't found any malware. Is there a program which can record the history of that process and find its source? Because it disappears every time when try to click on it.
Thanks for any advise.
 
Yeah, something is going on. I did search on that file name and came up empty. Run those programs and post the logs please.
 
By any chance are you running any virtual machines or obscure engineering software? Ive found some references to this process, or names similar in Fedora installations, VMs etc, but nothing exact.

But yeah, definitely do what John said... its almost certainly a malware issue. Amazing that its using 2GB of RAM though...
 
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