One CPU thread PINNED at idle

[felix920506]

One of the threads on my laptop is always pinned even at idle.

I know the screenshot of task manager is in Chinese.

[aisle9]

Rogue process. You have a lot of freeware programs on your desktop, entirely within the realm of possibility that one has implanted malware using your CPU to mine.

[felix920506]

I never had this problem until I updated 2 days ago.

And the CPU of another computer (Core i3-7100) with all of these programs wasn't even hitting 10% at idle on any of the cores.

[aisle9]

Just now, felix920506 said:

I never had this problem until I updated 2 days ago.

As in updated Windows? If that's the case, I'd lean more towards a rogue process and not CPU hijacking. Running Windows Update again might find the file.

[felix920506]

And task manager shows that the program "system" using up the most cpu resources at idle.

Is that because of the Meltdown fix?