Insanely high ram usage

[JosephSepulveda]

Hey guys! I'm quite new to the PC gaming world so any help would be appreciated! A few days ago I had a blue screen while simply running minecraft. After that happened I became quite scared so I started searching for a possible problem. I ran my antivirus which removed 1 virus I believe and shredded any of the affiliated files with it. I made sure my windows updates are all done. After this I went into my task manager to check my running processes and see how my CPU was doing but that was when I realized my ram is just shot up. Currently, having skype and chrome pulled up, my ram is at 65%!!! This is the exact ram that I havehttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
My whole build is a GTX 970 CPU i5 4690K and a z97 AsRock Anniversary. I looked up possible solutions to this and someone said that it could be that my ram is shot because of a certain virus that hides itself as svchost.exe which is currently taking up the second most ram right underneath steam. To fix this a guy on youtube said to disable windows updates which is what this is affiliated with according to him. I did and restarted my computer to see it start up at 30% usage which I'm used to seeing since it's only 8gb. Now, after having my computer on for about all morning it has tripled. Any help would be great!

After computer restart it is at 34% but usually what happens my ram goes to 60%+ after being on for a while and playing games.

 

[Jetster]

Do not disable windows updates and I wouldn't worry about svchost.exe. You could run Memtest86 from a disk or USB to test the ram. A virus isn't going to damage your ram. You probably have processes running that you don't need but its most likely not related to your BSOD.
Check the Windows task manager for critical errors
And fill out your system specs

 

[Cvrk]

A virus can cause memory leakage

 

[kn00tcn]

you can right click any svchost.exe > 'go to services' & it will highlight which services are in use by that process to see if there are any unusual or useless ones

yesterday was patch tuesday, windows updates do use up some hundreds of MB of ram (or maybe over a GB if you havent installed that one update a couple months ago that claimed to reduce ram usage)

the blue screen has information on the screen that could hint at what the problem could have been, it could have been a driver bug or maybe even overheating, you should have taken a photo

you didnt state which antivirus or what file it deleted

 

[Frick]

I'm sorta having the same problem, svchost netsvcs gobbles up to 2GB RAM when Windows Update is searching for updates. When I had 4GB the computer became basically unusable during that time. It usually stops after a time, anything between 5-15 minutes, or when the search ends. Sometimes when the updates are installing it drops to several hundred MBs before going down to <100ish. I think an update caused it, because I had the same problem before, I reinstalled Windows from scratch and when I had fully updated it the problem came back.

Now I'm running 8GB and have no problems, but I rarely do anything RAM intensive.

EDIT: Hey you can evidentally split up the svchost services into separate processes. Will just finish installing these updates, then reboot and see what happens.

EDIT: Yeah it's Windows Update, specifically wuaueng.dll. Following boot I started Windows Update, and it shot up to 1.6GB. It didn't find any updates and went back to 300MB. Immediatly on clicking "Check for updates" it shot right up to 1.8GB. When it didn't find any updates it got to 543 868 K, where it sits comfortably.

@JosephSepulveda Check out Process Exlorer, and in fact the entire Sysinternals suite.

EDIT: Killed the process, checked for updates again, and wham it immedietly tops out at close to 2GB, then stops at some hundred MBs (471 316 K now). Some corruption somewhere.