There were a few people who asked me to help them with their systems running slow even though they are positive it contains no malware of any kind. Thanx to the folks at DonationCoder there seems to be a logical explanation and a sorta fix.

Link:
http://…/how_do_i_fix_this_high_cpu_usage…

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