RE: sp2 svchost and wuauclt.exe 100%cpu

I have found the same problem with Windows Automatic Updates on XP Pro.

The following blog decribes what I've found so far:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/MangoJerry/

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Mango


"draco" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a strange problem, I recently upgraded to sp2 on a xp pro machine.
> Since then my cpu usage keeps oscillating between 100% and 0. Exactly like a
> clock pulse. I used process explorer(www.sysinternals.com) and found svchost
> to be the culprit. Also there wuauclt.exe is shown as a child process to that
> particular instance of svchost. On suspending wuauclt.exe, everything goes
> back to normal. Any ideas??? Unfortunately, I cannot disable automatic
> updates because of a program called cisco clean access agent which my
> provider uses to check if all computers are up to date.
> Any inputs would be great..