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I've lost my svchost file. Is there anyway to download a new one?
(WIndows ME)
HELP!

Another machine with Windows ME, or on your installation CD (probably in one of the .CAB files).

To workaround this problem go to :
Services-> Network Location Awareness
and disable the service.
You must reboot the computer afterward..

good luck !

To workaround this problem go to :
Services-> Network Location Awareness
and disable the service.
You must reboot the computer afterward..

good luck !

Thank you for the information here. On my XP machine svchost.exe asks to connect to www.windowsupdate.com rather than www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Is this a spurious site indicating I have a virus/trojan on board?

It's valid. Visiting that site manually takes you to the same place.

Very nice info, but if a program like AdwareSpy detects it and asks me if I want to remove it, should I remove it? Cause in this document you state that you should not remove svchot.exe. But in a wee comercial add on the side of it it says: "Remove svchot.exe", Complete Adware/Spyware Removal Huge database Clean you're system, www.AdwareSpy.com.

So should I remove with that program?

If you are running WIndows NT, 2000 or XP ... NO -
http://ask-leo.com/archives/000140.html

You should not delete svchost.exe. But be careful of the spelling ... you typed "svchot.exe" which is different - no idea what that is.

Spelling, even a single character difference, is important.

i saw someone above mention "svchosting.exe." I had a computer giving errors dealing with svchosting.exe at startup. Can anyone confirm that svchosting.exe is evidence of a virus. I've seen online that it may be an sdbot variant, but the info i have seen is only starting around 8-1-2004.

The computer that reported the problem with svchosting.exe did seem to have symptoms that could be caused by a virus -- lots of extra memory usage, with not many programs running and cpu usage was jumping around erratically from as low as 2% to around 55%.

any info is appreciated.

I found this on it out at Trend Micro: http://ask-leo.com/d-40805a

Looks like the culprit. Includes removal instructions.

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