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&gt;&gt; I'm running a virus scan on it right now but what else could that be if not a virus?<br />
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If it is not Virus, then many users are trying to connect to your server using SQLCMD mode..<br />
Find out the reason why they are using SQLCMD, Check the credentials involved and verify it out..<br />
Also find out the reason why they are spanning for a longer period of time..
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>> I'm running a virus scan on it right now but what else could that be if not a virus?

If it is not Virus, then many users are trying to connect to your server using SQLCMD mode..
Find out the reason why they are using SQLCMD, Check the credentials involved and verify it out..
Also find out the reason why they are spanning for a longer period of time..

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no viruses found and my &quot;DBA&quot; has no idea where this could be coming from.<br />
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any other ideas where to look?<br />
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Thank you so much
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no viruses found and my "DBA" has no idea where this could be coming from.

any other ideas where to look?

Thank you so much

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Just run a profiler trace so that you can find <br />
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* Which application is establishing connections to your server<br />
* what exactly they are doing in that connection<br />
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This would help you identify the reason for the multiple connections..
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Just run a profiler trace so that you can find

* Which application is establishing connections to your server
* what exactly they are doing in that connection

This would help you identify the reason for the multiple connections..

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My SQL server just came to halt when users started &nbsp;complaining that their application run slow, I remote to it and found hundreds of CMD.exe's Rebooted the server and it's better but in Task Manager (pic attached) I can still see blank CMD.exe and there is more and more of them. I'm running a virus scan on it right now but what else could that be if not a virus?
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My SQL server just came to halt when users started  complaining that their application run slow, I remote to it and found hundreds of CMD.exe's Rebooted the server and it's better but in Task Manager (pic attached) I can still see blank CMD.exe and there is more and more of them. I'm running a virus scan on it right now but what else could that be if not a virus?

Multiple CMD.EXE without process file on SQL server 2003

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.