Your Daily Cup of WTF - That Greedy Sytem Idle Process

Here's an excerpt from today's post:

SysAdmin: “Hey, we have some trouble again with the web server – the page are loading really slowly.”
I immediately call him on the phone…
Me: “OK – have you had a look at what’s happening on the server yet?”
Sysadmin: “No…I go look real quick, be right back”
Me: “OK”
About 5 minutes pass and finally he speaks again…
SysAdmin: “I think the virus software is here again.”
Me: “You mean the anti-virus software?”
SysAdmin: “Yeah...I see CPU again is 99%.”
Me: “That’s strange…I thought you had un-installed that before, right?”
SysAdmin: “I do un-install. This time process is ‘System Idle Process’...I am going to un-install it to fix”
Me: “OK – I have another phone call I need to take…please call me back after you have uninstalled, OK?”
SysAdmin: “OK – bye”

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