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Hi. I have that same bad red devil face and cannot find what I need to remove it. Can anyone help?

I have this csrss.exe thing on both my pc, it has disabled norton 05 security and i have spent hours trying to remove it. Webroot managed to find it, Spybot detects some "FakeMSNbeta" but neither are able to truly remove it. I believe my pc is still at risk and still infected. I dare not use messenger incase i infect people on my contacts list. I am not able to un- then re-install Norton, access to many sites offering advice on this infection appears blocked.
I haven't got a clue what to do and i'm worried about the safety/health of my pc.

Okay, I get that csrss.exe is essential. I have checked and there appears to be no virus.

So, why does this piece of code continually do I/O's to the hard drive when there is otherwise nothing going on? In point of fact, it does more reads than all other applications combined.

What gives?

Can anybody help me.

I've been receiving these weird popups in windows telling me to install some (random) registry fixer because I allegedly have some errors in my registry. traced the source of those popups and it seemed as though csrss.exe was what creates it. And thus I concluded it being a virus but since it's a Windows essential part, I could not have deleted it. I tried reformatting my C: and reinstalling XP but I still receive the same message(s). Starting to believe my Windows XP cd got proper ******

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Have you turned off the Windows Messenger Service? This article shows how: http://ask-leo.com/what_windows_services_can_i_turn_off.html

When my PC boots, I get a Windows - no disk error message (retry, cancel, continue - cancel is the only thing that works). Task manager associates it cssrss.exe as the appropriate process. How can I make this go away?

If you've spelled it properly (cssrss, not csrss) then you most likely have a virus and need to run up-to-date virus and spyware scans.

I began experiencing the heavy CPU utilization problem after not having logged into my office computer for 10 days. I tried all the various suggestions (without deleting my profile or reinstalling XP) to no avail. I then killed every system tray application one at a time and discovered that the Google Desktop was the culprit.

My GDS install is setup to index several large file server shares on my network. I am assuming that because I logout before going home every night, it is unable to perform this indexing overnight since GDS (a system tray app) is no longer running. Since I was away for over a week, I think that after I logged in, it had begun catching up by performing large indexing operations. I validated this by leaving myself logged in overnight with GDS running. Today I've noticed no lengthy CPU utilizations by CSRSS.exe.

When my PC boots, I get a Windows - no disk error message (retry, cancel, continue - cancel is the only thing that works). Task manager associates it cssrss.exe as the appropriate process. How can I make this go away?
My csrss.exe is ok i keep getting this message. It started when i installed Norton from a floppy then i removed the disk before i closed the Norton program and shut my computer down. Please Help.

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