Garoo

Oh my God, I’ve got worms. My computer lags, I run the task manager, sort by CPU use, and there it is: csrss.exe, a Windows system file whose name is also used by various worms. But how could I ever be contaminated? I don’t run Outlook, I don’t run Explorer (except for the major French gay chatroom, but, well, you gotta do what you gotta do), I don’t run the executable files my mother sends me… a worm? Me? Let’s see… csrss.exe, the Windows system file, has to do with display, but Photoshop is iconized, DScaler is paused, no graphics application is working, and anyway I didn’t start anything out of the ordinary yet I’ve never noticed this filename in my task manager, something’s very wrong. I open secuser.com, right click, “View This Page in IE”, and why are there so many uppercase initials in Firefox, I do realize I shouldn’t really trust a web antivirus my parents recommended but I haven’t got anything better, I start the online check, guess I’ll have to be patient now. But, still, how could I get a worm? Back to Google, looks like there’s half a dozen worms using this name so they’re automatically “protected” by the Windows task manager,but, come on, how could I ever get one? No, really, nothing could justify a display-related system file eating up 30% of my CPU time, and with all that processing power how many infected emails could I have sent before I noticed? Let’s close everything graphical just in case, but it won’t help. Oh, the Matrox PowerDesk driver’s zoom, that enlarges part of my display onto the third monitor, is activated, I’ll start with it. It shouldn’t take any CPU power, should just be managed by the video card, can’t be it. Ctrl-Shift-minus. Oh well, that was it.