Svchost and Svchost.exe - Crashs, CPU maximization, viruses, exploits and more.

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It's certainly possible you're infected, but the symtoms sound just a little more like an attack to me. Of course you should update and virus scan, but are you behind a firewall of any sort? I'd recommend that too.

Yeah I think it might have just been an attack too now. I downloaded ZoneAlarm Basic and I think that has fixed it. I have Norton Antivirus and ran some worm fixes but nothing showed up.

I also have a problen with svchost. It is using up 100% of my c.p.u. I've tried a lot of solutions from the web, but I've had no luck.
down loaded xp pac 1, symantec is up dated and still nothing. Any help I get will be well received. If you know of any web sites that can help me..There has got to be something I can do.
Rick

Well, be sure and read my article here, if you haven't already (http://ask-leo.com/archives/000105.html ). Are you behind any kind of firewall? Sometimes the CPU usage can be in indication of attack.

The svchost.exe file is located in the c:\windows\System32 folder. In other cases, svchost.exe is a virus, spyware, trojan or worm!

You can check this in additional:
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/svchost.exe.html

hi

after connection of internet this porblem will accure and i not able to discvonnect the connection and it is to be restart the system

Well, I visited a simple web page and Norton came up with 3 viruses - 2 notepad.exe files and the third file was called svchost[1].exe. Stupidly, since I couldn't clean them, I deleted them. Now, IE doesn't load up (I get "Microsoft Internet Explorer had an error, so it's closing"), and I can't get Microsoft updates to download. Virus or deleting nice file? Note that I still have a file in my system 32 folder called svchost.exe, and I'm working on Win 2000. Thanx for any insight y'all may have. - C

Can you get an IE update to download? Or do you have something downloaded already that would allow you to re-install IE? That might repair it and allow you to move forward.

Hi

My windows 2000 advanced server is connected to net . As soon as i connect to net lsass.exe taking 100% of cpu time and machine bacame slow. What to do? Please help

I have a whole article dedicated to LSASS and the Sasser worm here: http://ask-leo.com/archives/000114.html

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