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

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First, I'd try the system file checker:
http://ask-leo.com/archives/000074.html - then I'd make sure you had an up to date virus scan.

Leo

THE SOLUTION SI PATCH "KB823980". I HAWE DO THAT BEFORE 7 DAYS AND NOW I DO NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH MY COMPUTER. THANK YOU "LEO".
SAMIR, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

Hello

itried to conecct to mIRC and it says i have a trojan ??? ive ran spy-bot , ada-awre and norton2004 i also have a personal firewall enabled , how do i find the trojan thats lurking on my system please ?? i run winXPpro thanx for your assistance

steve

Good question. Does mIRC give you any information as to *what* trojan it thinks you have? You might also try an additional virus scanner (there are several free ones on the net that make for a good second tier scanner).

Leo

Hi. I have a question...
I have four SVCHOST.EXE running after restarting computer ... but after 1hour (or more) one of them is using my CPU in 99% ... when i disable it i can't COPY/PASTE/MOVE FOLDERS, etc.
Can you please help me ? And if you reply plz send me an email so i can see what is the problem :P btw. maybe there is a way to look why this process use 99% of my CPU ?

That's most certainly a virus. Check out the article and subsequent comments here: http://ask-leo.com/archives/000059.html

Good luck!

Leo

thx Leo ... i solve my problem myself :)
This was the attack on the RPC to run commands :) I think it was Gaobot attack from LAN network :)
antivirus + patches for xp + little time ... and i solve the problem :)
btw. nice site - keep up the good work :)

Hey Leo, I got a question for yah...(obviously). I run windows xp, and for some reason or another, after I reboot my compt, my task bar gets locked up and I am no longer able to use it. I can still minimize programs and alt+tab back into them. I just cannot see them on my taskbar...mainly because it will later dissaper after running a few progams...IE games and such. I ran norton...nothing found...ran spy bot, search and destroy...found a few things, didnt fix my problem. I got the latest xp updates and such. But when i opend up my task manager, and ended svchost, my taskbar came back up and was working fine. svchost does not mainly take up alot of my cpu, but it does have it's spikes at moments where it will shoot up. Any idea what might be going on?

Is the task bar still visible when the problem happens? I'm wondering if it's jsut auto-hidden? Right click on an unused area on the task bar, hit properties (you may need to unlock the taskbar), and check the auto-hide and on-top settings.

Leo

Hi There...

I has a problem with my PC's,
I'm using WinXP Pro, and i had this Generic Host Process For Win32 Services. Where each time the dialog box pop up, i try to close it and there is a dialog box tell that the PCs need to shut down. After a few times faced this problem i try to find a solution in internet and found out it is a MSblast. i been search a file named MSBlast.exe but did not found it. finally i found out that the generic host.... actually point to the svchost.exe.
can anyone help me to settle my problem???plzzz???

Thanks.

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