What is spoolsv.exe?
 

I'm looking through my process list and I see this taking up half a gigabyte. I run a search on it and I see some people saying it's a virus, some people saying it's a print job waiting... I can't figure out what exactly it is. I did have a print job waiting, so I canceled that, but the process is still running at half a gigabyte.

Can anyone fill me in?

SpyBot does not detect anything.

its printer related I am almost 100% sure.

Okay, I killed it... good thing I upgraded my ram the other night. That would have killed my computer.

it is printer

found this

http://torque.oncloud8.com/archives/000384.html

a little help if it takes up to much cpu

Nothing like tackling a suspicious file to spice up your day. :D heh

It's for printing stuff. I killed it before and I had issues printing stuff, but that was with the pile of shiite that was Windows Millenium.
I presume things are better now :winkwink:

It's the motherfucking worst virus in history. It'll trace your family and kill them all, starting with the youngest ones.

RUN AND DON'T LOOK BACK!

There is a site for checking processes, but I couldnt find it now. But google works too!

Yeap and u r 100% correct:)

It's the printer spooler. You can stop/start it through your Services interface. Use Start, Run, services.msc to do so.

I think it is a virus!

http://www.processlibrary.com/

:thumbsup