Tim Mangan wrote "So you are basically talking about the same things that mess up the browser, " Right which is why it is a good bet that a spyware program or a browser hijacker has taken over his system as I suggested before. JK -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Timothy Mangan Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:26 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Process Consuming 100% util Ntvdm: Usually not much hope there without add-on. Outlook: If not a corrupted pst, usually 100%CPU is caused by html mail is likely. So you are basically talking about the same things that mess up the browser, which includes having "a bad internet day" (such as last Friday). It is unusual for it to be "hardware", but a bad lan interface (from nic to switch or vlan) could cause it. Maybe in conjunction with a bad site or internet day could push the process "over the top". You know how to look for those things (and if you give up you know where I am...) tim Timothy R. Mangan - Founder, TMurgent Technologies tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> www.tmurgent.com <http://www.tmurgent.com> (+1)781.492.0403 _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Madden Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:03 PM