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Hello to Holland (home of my parents as well as my current house guests :-).

I located this thread on truevector issues out on DSLReports: http://ask-leo.com/d-40502b - does any of it describe or help resolve your issue?

Hello I have done everything in the directions you have suggested and am still having the svchost.exe running at 99 or 100% is there anything else i can do to stop this from happening?
Also there seems to be some discrepencies on the name of the file in your website as I have seen it refered to as scvhost.exe and svchost.exe which one is ok?, and which is a potential virus?

If you've done everything described here, I don't have more suggestions at this time. Check back, because as new information becomes available, I will add it to the article.

And sCVhost is probably a virus. sVChost is a system component.

Good luck!

Hi again Leo (and others),

It looks like the pc is not rebooting any more automaticly. But the computer does not start up in one time... again it "hangs" when it starts up, sometimes I have to start it up 2 or 3 times at one time.

Does anybody have any other suggestions? Thanks for the info so far.. I will try to shut down ZA tonight and see if it's starting up right tomorrow.

Peter from Holland

hello,
i got win xp with 2 users and in one of them the usage of svchost.exe is 99% en in the other one its 00% do i got a virus?(my scanner doesnt locate any virus) what now??
tnx in advance

Silly question, but is everyone remembering to disable System Restore BEFORE running the Blaster or Welchia removal tools?

Yes I did scan with the tools and yes I did put of the System Restore before I started running them. Funny and all but my computer is still not working right and scanning everyday!

Anybody?

Peter from Holland

Niels: quite possibly. I'm hearing again and again that not all scanners are always catching all viruses. Sad, but apparently true. Try another scanner and see what it shows.

ALSO, it's possible you DON'T have a virus, but that you are being attacked (or probed) from outside. Make sure you have a firewall of some sort.

Good Luck.

I'm having a problem similar to this, but different. My computer works fine at all times, EXCEPT when I try to download items from windowsupdate.com. Some will update, but a couple (the latest Win Media Player update, and the update for DirectX9.0b), when I run them, will download the files fine, but once the program begins installation, the svchost.exe file (User Name: SYSTEM in the Win Task Manager/Processes) goes to near 100%, and the updates will not install. I've let one run for 5+ hours trying to install, another for 3+ hours. I close the programs (they crash, and I need to close them by using Win Task Manager/Applications/End Task, hitting that multiple times, and then closing the "Not Responding" popups), but the svchost.exe will continue to show 100% until I reboot. And, I can surf the net and do other programs at the same speed as before, while this svchost show 100% CPU usage. I've checked for Blaster and it appears I do not have that worm/virus. Any help would be app

Sorry, I forgot to mention above that I cannot install DirectX9, even from game CDs that come with DirectX9 on the CD. This has happened on two different games, one I purchased recently and I cannot play due to the games requirement I have to have DirectX9, but the same things happen as described above whether I try to upgrade DirectX with either a game CD or via windowsupdate.com. I don't think it's a DirectX problem specifically, as the same thing happens trying to update Win Media Player from MS windowsupdate.com page, and it's not an internet problem specifically, as I cant' update my DirectX from a game CD. The results described above are the same. Any thoughts appreciated.

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