Task Manager keeps showing high random CPU usages!

[F.E.A.R.]

So I noticed recently that whenever I open task manager for a split second the CPU usage is between 43-100% and immediately goes down to 4%. This has never happened before, and I'm afraid it's because of the newest Nvidia driver, but I reverted back to the previous version and yet there's no change. Any help? Anything I should be worried?

 

Specs:

 

AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X

ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS

(2x8) Kingston FURY™ Beast DDR4 3200mhz CL16

GeForce RTX™ 3060 EAGLE OC 12G (rev. 2.0)

Win10 pro 64 on Kingston A400 SATA SSD 480GB
EVGA Supernova 750W G2L

[shoutingsteve]

I once had a virus that would disappear as soon as I hovered over it in task manager.  I useda  program called (searches through history of downloads...) Process Explorer(?) to see what was running.  Then I followed the file path and deleted the troublesome exe file.  Easy as pie.  If you are lucky it'll be that easy.

[F.E.A.R.]

10 minutes ago, shoutingsteve said:

I once had a virus that would disappear as soon as I hovered over it in task manager.  I useda  program called (searches through history of downloads...) Process Explorer(?) to see what was running.  Then I followed the file path and deleted the troublesome exe file.  Easy as pie.  If you are lucky it'll be that easy.

I downloaded the MS Process App, how do I recognize a virus?

[F.E.A.R.]

Well I formatted Windows through the reset setting. That didn't work. I fromatted Win through USB, still didn't work. I deleted everything on all 3 drives reinstalled Windows, still not fixed. 

[Blue4130]

So you completely nuked three drives because cpu use went up momentarily when you opened a program?

 

You say split second, do you mean literally less than one second?

[F.E.A.R.]

43 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

So you completely nuked three drives because cpu use went up momentarily when you opened a program?

 

You say split second, do you mean literally less than one second?

Yes because all search results point to a hidden virus, just as the member above also said. The important things that I had, I moved them to my USB. It just took me 2hrs, no big deal, but I'm still afraid because something like this did not happened previously. I even scanned with Malwarebytes but everything is clean. 

[Blue4130]

1 hour ago, F.E.A.R. said:

Yes because all search results point to a hidden virus, just as the member above also said. The important things that I had, I moved them to my USB. It just took me 2hrs, no big deal, but I'm still afraid because something like this did not happened previously. I even scanned with Malwarebytes but everything is clean. 

If you scanned properly, you would know if you had a virus...

 

And if you had a virus, copied files to a usb, the formatted the drives and plugged the USB back in, you just wasted your time. When you get a virus, you don't back up files after the fact. Your backup needs to be from before you get a virus.

[shoutingsteve]

On 3/12/2023 at 2:19 PM, F.E.A.R. said:

I downloaded the MS Process App, how do I recognize a virus?

When you open the process explorer, it should show what is chewing up all the cpu cycles.  tell us what that is called process is titled.  Or, even better, take a screen shot of the window.