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| Thread ID: 43959 | 2004-04-02 08:38:00 | svchost hogging CPU?!?!?! | jcerecke (4249) | Press F1 |
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| 226615 | 2004-04-02 08:38:00 | Hi, my computer seems to be running slow. I had a look in the taskman and it showed that "svchost.exe" is usually hogging around 70-80% of CPU. Ummm, I'm on win2000pro and have just installed google toolbar, and kazaalite... I think that's all. Cheers Josh |
jcerecke (4249) | ||
| 226616 | 2004-04-02 08:47:00 | You will find multiple instances of the program running, that is normal. It may be getting data your computer needs from MS, that is the job it does so far as I know. It may run for a while whilst it updates. Make sure it is svchost.exe and not scvhost.exe which I am led to believe is a virus. CU Rob. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 226617 | 2004-04-02 09:13:00 | But I'm not connected to the internet and it can't get any info from ms. (it's not on this computer). There's two instances of it running (svchost (not the virus)) and I REALLY want to get rid of them but I can't stop the process because it won't let me. I just want my CPU back. |
jcerecke (4249) | ||
| 226618 | 2004-04-02 09:33:00 | All I can suggest is that you run: AVG, Ad-Aware and then Spybot, in case you have got some nasty into your system. Rob. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 226619 | 2004-04-02 10:35:00 | Make sure all instances of SVCHOST in your running processes are just that and not SCHOST which is a nasty. Some worms also spoof the name SVCHOST so, you can never be too carefull. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 226620 | 2004-04-02 20:53:00 | You could go to ..Run..type in..services-msc..and disable it. I myself wouldn't do that, but if you don't want it, thats your choice. Be interested to know what happens if you do disable it though, so post back if you do. DD. |
dumdum (4965) | ||
| 226621 | 2004-04-06 09:35:00 | SVCHOST is a filename that is used by the Welchia B worm virus. Check out: securityresponse.symantec.com Only a maybe though. |
PeterM (5477) | ||
| 226622 | 2004-04-06 09:43:00 | here's (support.microsoft.com) a description of what it does from microsoft | nadius (3249) | ||
| 226623 | 2004-04-06 09:58:00 | Sorry I missed what OS, but if on win2k/XP you can disable/set to manual startup some of the svchost services in computer management. You have to right click on the processes and find which ones you don't need. Gotta be careful though. Right click my computer -> manage. |
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