[thelist] What's eating my PC

Hershel Robinson hershelr at netvision.net.il
Mon Jun 3 08:52:01 CDT 2002


Well done.  That would appear to be my problem.  I may well try zone alarm
now.

Thanks,
Hershel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Thompson" <adeythom at well.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] What's eating my PC


> Hi. Take a look at
>
http://forums.sygatetech.com/showthread.php?s=e00c0fe674ac286ed098676e04d61d
a6&threadid=737&highlight=smc.exe
> (watch the wrapping)
>
> It seems to discuss the problem you're having.
>
> If the problem does turn out to be Sygate Firewall, you could do a lot
> worse than try Zone Alarm (http://www.zonelabs.com) - it's free for
> personal use, and seems (on my machine at least!) to be stable, and
> non-resource hogging.
>
> HTH,
>
> Adrian Thompson
>
>
> At 15:55 03/06/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >I run Win 2K (for better or worse--I have no choice) and occasionally,
like
> >once a day, some process called Smc.exe takes over at least half of my
> >processor, if not more.  Even though I should in theory still have a half
a
> >processor, my PC crawls and I need to restart.  It eats up my processor
but
> >only uses about 12 meg RAM.  All this info is what my Task Manager
> >indicates.
> >
> >Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >Hershel
> >
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