SRTSP64.SYS Antivirus
SRTSP64.SYS huge CPU usage
I noticed a lot of people have problem with CPU spikes with "SYSTEM" process. I’m having this problem too, but different than I expected, the problem is not on Windows, but with NIS 2012. Some time ago I noticed that problem, then I downloaded Process Explorer and I discovered that the Thread ID "216" Start Adress "SRTSP64.sys" is the cause of all my problem. Some research in "System32" and web, discovered that "SRTSP64.sys" is NIS Auto-protect driver. Then I disabled Auto-protect, and cpu usage was normal again…. until started all over again. Disk and memory usage is fine, problem is only with CPU usage, but really, for me that have a dual-core, 50% cpu usage REALLY makes a lot difference. I just cant keep using my pc because my AV use 50% of it constantly.
NIS 2012 – SRTSP64.SYS
I recently installed NIS 2012 as an upgrade to NIS 2011. I am running Windows 7 (64 bit version) on an i7 processor with 4 real cores plus 4 virtual cores. Since then, every so often, I noticed that my hard drive sounded like it was running continuously. I then checked the Windows task manager and it showed the following: System process ID 4 was using 13% of my CPU capacity (i.e. one processor) and seemed to be running nonstop and it was reading and writing continuously to my hard drive. I would then reboot and the problem would disappear for a while.
The problem started again since my last reboot about 8 hours ago, and Windows task manager shows that System process ID 4 as usual is using 13% of my CPU capacity and it had been running for a total of 2 hours and 53 minutes. The Windows task manager also showed that System process ID 4 had read 85 billion bytes and it had written 170 billion bytes since the last reboot. By comparison, the System idle process has used about 30 hours of processing time.
I then ran "Process Explorer" from Sysinternals. It showed the following information:
TID CPU CSwitch Delta Start Address
3196 12.39 101 SRTSP64.SYS+0x7fe60
I then looked up SRTSP64 and discovered that it is part of NIS 2012 and that’s why I’m posting this message since the problem seems to have something to do with NIS 2012.
Thank you for any assistance that can be provided.