HELP! Weird processes taking up all my CPU on my BLAZING FAST iMac!

[Awesomeness]

Ok, serious emergency here. A long time ago this other process, called Safari, but with the default application icon, started using up 70% of my CPU. I know they are different processes because:

• I can see both processes at the same time in the processes list when Safari is open,
• it still takes up 70-100% even when the REAL Safari is closed,
• and... something's wrong!

Also, no matter what it open, NOW there's two! You know how the root application reports crashes? (duh) Well, apparently it's reporting millions... It's using 70%-100% of my CPU too! SIMULTANEOUSLY! A bunch of other root programs are taking 20%-30%, so that totals up to over 250% of my CPU!

 

[belvdr]

Is it slowing your system down to where it is unusable?

 

[lancestraz]

Do you use fast user switching?
The process that is using all your CPU is called "Safari" right and the user that owns it is "root", correct?

 

[Awesomeness]

Do you use fast user switching?
The process that is using all your CPU is called "Safari" right and the user that owns it is "root", correct?

-Gasps- IT'S MY LITTLE BROTHER! >.< So that explains Safari lol. One last thing... Now my computer is just BARELY usable, (it now doesn't take ten seconds for each character I type in to show on the screen, now its only seven seconds! ) but ReportCrash is still taking up... four hundred percent of my CPU!? Holy cra now each char taks 20 secs 2 load omg help cant typ

 

[smartalic34]

this is probably a stupid question, but did you try restarting the computer?

 

[belvdr]

Did you reboot? This seems like an obvious thing to do.

 

[Awesomeness]

Did you reboot? This seems like an obvious thing to do.

Yeah, I rebooted. Still a problem, but only like 70% now.

 

[barkmonster]

Take a Screen shot of activity monitor set to "Active Processes" and post it on here.

Someone will know what's going on from that.

You might also try googling any processes that seem to be high to see what they are and how to stop them.