sorry

Thanks Jim Hutchinson, that solved my question.

I don't think this is a virus. But If you want to install an antivirus anyway, you can find a list here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus

Okay, I seem to have a lot of stuff going on with the
cpu "id" (no quotes.) It shows between 91-100% at any
one time. When I installed Ubuntu, I kept my Windows
applications--I'm wondering if this is where the
problem lies. As I don't speak Linux, I'm always a bit
in the dark when it comes to things like this. Thanks,
I appreciate any help you could pass on! Tre

--- Jim Hutchinson
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> Your question #9787 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
>
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/9787
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Jim Hutchinson proposed the following answer:
> It is unlikely that the slowness is caused by a
> virus. There are not
> very many Linux viruses out there and they are hard
> to spread and even
> harder to get them to cause any damage. However, to
> answer your question
> there are virus scanners for Linux. ClamAV is the
> main one. Open
> Synaptic Package Manager (system - admin) and search
> for "clamav" and
> install it. It will pull down a few more
> dependencies so accept them.
>
> However, I'd be willing to bet there is a different
> reason for the
> slowness. First, lets just see if any app is using a
> lot of CPU and/or
> memory. Open a terminal (applications - accessories)
> and type "top" (no
> quotes). See what sort of CPU usage you have and if
> any app is using a
> lot. Unless something is working hard for some
> reason, most apps use
> very little of the CPU. If you see something over
> 10% for any app, lets
> explore it and see if it's misbehaving. You can
> press ctrl-c when you
> see the high percentage and then copy and past the
> output here.
>
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That's what I expected. I'd open a new question for this since it's probably not related to a virus. Be sure to include the output of top so we can see what app or apps are using a lot of CPU.

Thanks! Tre

--- Jim Hutchinson
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> Your question #9787 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
>
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/9787
>
> Jim Hutchinson posted a new comment:
> That's what I expected. I'd open a new question for
> this since it's
> probably not related to a virus. Be sure to include
> the output of top so
> we can see what app or apps are using a lot of CPU.
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what I just saw was a thing for us Ubuntites called "clam AV" thats what you are looking for.

May I start a new string, I saw yours and just typed in top in a terminal and it says two users, but there's only one, also what would be running called xorg?

D USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 3136 root 20 0 314m 32m 8960 S 23 1.1 15:17.95 Xorg
  667 root 20 0 52036 39m 23m R 21 1.3 1:44.17 synaptic
 1415 brenda 20 0 33284 13m 9260 R 7 0.5 0:00.76 gnome-terminal
 3865 brenda 20 0 16644 5268 4000 S 3 0.2 0:16.58 gnome-screensav
 5409 brenda 20 0 185m 94m 23m S 2 3.1 2:19.87 firefox
  692 root 20 0 5392 2076 1684 S 1 0.1 0:11.38 http
 1437 brenda 20 0 2448 1192 912 R 1 0.0 0:00.11 top
 3746 brenda 20 0 28088 14m 10m S 1 0.5 0:06.65 update-notifier
 3728 brenda 20 0 49716 24m 14m S 0 0.8 0:34.45 gnome-panel
    1 root 20 0 3084 1888 564 S 0 0.1 0:01.25 init
    2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/0
    4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.35 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 migration/1
    7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.75 ksoftirqd/1
    8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1

leebrendalee,

Please do not add to a 'solved' report unless it is yours. This is not the case. Please post a new question should you require, so that you can get the most attention, many of us ignore 'solved' threads since they are 'solved'.

To answer your question, two users is normal. This is not a concern you should have and absolutely does not indicate any type of 'security' issue.