Kernal 32
 

Very often I get a process called kernal 32.

It takes up quite a bit of my cpu (95-98)

I want to know what it is and how to keep it from booting every time i boot up.

This is windows xp

Thanks

i searched already and only found progs for sale the explain stuff

Umm .... kernal 32 is the 32 bit kernal for windows...(i know duh) but kernal is the central program of the operating system(in your case windows) so it should uses some power and there is no real way you can get rid of it.

i guess you could say it's like explorer

i end the process tho


i think it might be a virus then


ill scan and adaware etc

yea cuz i dont have kernel on my processes

yeah, i think if you do a search on the norton security website you'll find that the kernel.exe or whatever is a virus/trojan/spyware thing. As always, virus scanners (w/ updated definitions) are your friend (i like norton, you can generally get the full version for about $10 off of pricewatch software section) as is AdAware. The system process is the kernel process for the windows OS, explorer is the shell (i'm pretty sure about that, though i may be wrong).

it won't show up under NT. but it's ntkernsomething, not kernel32. so it probably is virus/spyware