hi.  i was wondering if "svchost.exe" is a lagitamit process. also, i have included a screeny of my processes. plz tell me if any are "not windows frendly". I did download alot, about 5, updates with auto update, which seems a little much... Lets not forget Blaster....

Im asking this cause i dont have much memory, and it takes up alot....and, there are a few of them running

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Believe it or not, 2 years from when i ask about the possible "bad bad virus" svchost, i get a virus that disguises itself as it. The virus wouldnt let me run TaskManager or regedit to get rid of it. I had to rely on a different program, Iarsn TaskInfo 2003, to stop the process. Thought it was worth updating my ooollllddd post. Plz dont flame jsut cause its 2 years old. Is my thread after all

this is a list  of alot of WIndows proceces. start there. it might help to google the process that ur suspicious of.

svchost.exe is legitimate. I have 5 instances of it running right now. Here's some info from Microsoft...

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056

What you need to know is where the svchost.exe file in memory is located. There are several programs out there that can find out. It could be spyware or adware hiding itself by naming itself svchost.exe

You may want to increase the size of you paging file.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=259184

This will give you in a sense more RAM, only thing with this tho, is that it is Virtual.

Cheers


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Its funny how you scribbled out your name on the Task List althou I can tell your name is Ryan, (You put your email address in your Profile )

Oh, just because no one pointed it out.. yes svshost.exe is a legit process, there are also numerous viruses which use this name to disguise themself.

Do a full HDD scan with a virus scanner too while you're at it

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Originally posted by Matty.
You may want to increase the size of you paging file.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=308417

This will give you in a sense more RAM, only thing with this tho, is that it is Virtual.

Cheers


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Its funny how you scribbled out your name on the Task List althou I can tell your name is Ryan, (You put your email address in your Profile )

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lol  shhhh  dont tell anyone

Also, thanks for all of the sugestions

svchost.exe is legit yes. And don't worry about the large memory requirements: I have 5 instances of it running right now, one of which is using 20MB of memory! With all 5 instances, about 30-35MB is taken up by it.

So, basically, so long as you don't have a virus, you might as well leave it running.

Check your processes with TaskInfo, you can see the full path there. The real svchost.exe is under the Windows\System32 folder.

If you are really concerned about the number of svchost.exe using up you memory try disabling some windows services. A good list of services you can disable is located here: http://www.sanx.org/tipShow.asp?articleRef=65
You can find many others elsewhere

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Originally posted by illuzn
If you are really concerned about the number of svchost.exe using up you memory try disabling some windows services. A good list of services you can disable is located here: http://www.sanx.org/tipShow.asp?articleRef=65
You can find many others elsewhere

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Automatic Updates
Many users prefer to manually download updates from Microsoft. If you wish to use the automatic update facility, leave this service enabled.

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hmmmm you're saying svchost.exe is legit but that viruses try to desguise themselves with similar name.... look at this:



Virus?

i doubt that it is   from what i have learned, svchost.exe is a program the runs services. so that could be any number of windows services...

yeah well look carefully, that says scvhost.exe...

woooo  i missed that....guess your right  could be a virus.......O_O

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Is it possible to recive an email without using something like  @hotmail.com   or  @yahoo.com??   because i got an email...and the email   only has  sara....nothin else...no  @hotmail, or @******....spoofer??

included a screenshot if you dont know what im talkin bout
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hmmm i think i saw some other topic on these forums about that....

here:

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=28814

might have to do with that... i dunno

Do a virus scan...

that is obviously the first thing that i did  but not all anti virus programs updated EVERY day, im using norton, so...they only update, well  live update anyways, once a week, so new viruses wont be found

Try Spybot - Search & destroy and do a scan.

Talking about norton, i just ran it and it found 11 new viruses but only deleted 2.... it kept saying it couldn't delete the others.... wth am i supposed to do with them.... watch them?

well  norton should stop their processes...but   try doin this

start > run > msconfig > Startup tab > Disable All
Reboot and run a virus scan, delete the viruses. Then folow the same instruction, but instead of disabling, Enable All; OR

start in safe mode and run a virus scan.

Also, if u have your Norton CD around, i beleave you can boot from it. Put it in your CD drive, and boot up. And just tinker around and look for something that says scan for viruses. Ive never done it myself.

Or what might be happening, is norton is saying that it cannot REPAIR the file. Which means you may have to delete the file manually. Once again, folow the steps up there and delete the file manually instead of scanning.