http://beecherbowers.com/2009/11/28/msmpeng-exe-hogs-cpu-time/ of all the places on the internet, you ended up here. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:18:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=7382 hourly 1 http://beecherbowers.com/2009/11/28/msmpeng-exe-hogs-cpu-time/comment-page-1/#comment-679 art Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:06:20 +0000 http://beecherbowers.com/?p=593#comment-679 add, to the exclusion folders/files ... the entire Microsoft Security Essentials folder, and then for good measure the individual file MsMpEng.exe. (found off the C drive in the Program folder...). You may have to 'Kill' the MsMpEng the first time to knock the CPU down, but after that I haven't had a runnaway CPU problem since. add, to the exclusion folders/files … the entire Microsoft Security Essentials folder, and then for good measure the individual file MsMpEng.exe. (found off the C drive in the Program folder…). You may have to ‘Kill’ the MsMpEng the first time to knock the CPU down, but after that I haven’t had a runnaway CPU problem since.

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