What is svchost, and why is there more than one copy running?

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Everytime i connect to the internet... after 10 mins or 15... and "SVCHOST.exe - Application ERROR" appears... and when i click... OK my connection will stop responding... and if CANCEL it will debug... but still stop responding... what was it?!?! thanks!

That's classic behaviour for one of the viruses that manifests as a SVCHOST error. Check out this article: http://ask-leo.com/archives/000059.html

Good luck!

Leo

I have had many of the same errors that you all are talking about but that is just how it all started for me. I got so bad that I could not open any web pages.

what you all should try is got to the site that makes nortons anti-virus and look up

wn32.blaster
wn32.walchia.worm
wn32.walchia.a.worm
wn32.walchia.b.worm
wn32.walchia.c.worm
worm.lovsan.a

That is what I have found no my computer, and only one of them Nortons corp pro found.

Now I have a question. I am really new to all this computer tek stuff and so when nortons or avg could not fix the walchia worm I paniced and tryed to delete every thing to do with the svchost that I could. I deleted the svchost.dll but the svchost.exe would not delete for it was in use to I tryed everything to delete it. One thing that I wish that I do not do was I opened up the properties and at the time there was six (6) tabs and i changed every setting in there that could be changed.

Now I got rid of all the worms but my computer is not working right at all, i think that is has to do with what I did to the svchost.exe. I tried to reformat my computer using my windows XP but it told me that my files were corrupeted and it can not be done.

Please any info about how I can reformate my computer would help.

thank you for your time
david

Jay trust me you had the blaster worm.....and it is a naste one too

You need to find a program called "FixBlaster" then you need to make sure that you have all the criticial windows updates and that will fix that problem.

svchost.exe is actually an important and required system component. If attempting to resolve a virus issue has damaged it, that can easily explain all sorts of remaining bad behaviour, even after the virus has been eradicated. My recommendation is to run the system file checker (sfc). I mention it and how to run it in this article: http://ask-leo.com/archives/000053.html - it should repair any damaged files.

Good luck!

Leo

Okay Leo, I need help, I am running winodws XP SP1 and print Spooler service disappered from Services list. There are no printers listed in printers folder. I cannot add printer. When trying to run the wizard I get Error: 'Operation could not be completed.'
I have deleted the print driver and cleaned the registery.
The only thing I can think of was I was trying to print .prn file from dos prompt and something remove spooler service.

Yikes! I'd run the system file checker to see if that doesn't restore the spooler. I just posted an article on SFC: http://ask-leo.com/archives/000074.html

Good luck!

Leo

Thank you,
I have done that; SFC replaced a DLL and I should have written down which one but did not. My spooler is still not back! any other suggestions

I have a virus that attached itself to my svchhost.exe and svchoste.exe files, since they are running, I try to end process and then move the file to the virus valt (in AVG) - BUT when I end the process I am forced to reboot the machine.

anyone provide any assistance?

Im using WIN XP Home SP1 - thanks

svchost is a required system file - the system can't run without it. You'll need to use one of the removal tools. I recommend symantec: http://ask-leo.com/d-symantecavc - it's also worth reading this article: http://ask-leo.com/archives/000059.html .

Good luck!

Leo

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