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I only just switched to nod32 from avast recently. avast also found a trojan nod32 could see but not delete.. so now i'm doubly happy.

Ah Thank you! I uninstalled them both and it stopped. I think it was probably zone alarm. Now will the problem come back if i reinstall it? If so, are there any other free firewalls you can suggest? *later* I reinstalled nod32 and it came back, so zone alarm was ok.

Yes, and as i said i've closed down all programs before with no change. That includes firewall, antivirus, antispyware etc etc

The timebase is 1 second

It does. I've also closed all programs and the problem persists.

The process "system process" CPU spikes approximately every 5 seconds. I've searched google and there's thousands of people with this issue but with either no fix or completely random fixes. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about it. Troubleshooting doesn't find anything with any of these cases and i've tried all the fixes they suggest. Win XP 1GB Ram 9550 Radeon graphics card (i think) 2.8GHz CPU Peter