svchost.exe

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From: John-Paul (thermotwo_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:25:18 -0700

I am having a few issues with my machine that I think are
related:

-after I have been online for a while i get an error
message that says:"SVCHOST.EXE has encountered errors and
will be closed by Windows. You will have to restart the
program" (not verbatim). Once this happens, it keeps me
from doing a lot of things on my PC like visiting some web
pages, links on pages don't work, can't open other files
on my machine e.g. access database, text files...I have to
restart my computer and not get on the net for anything to
work properly again.

I thought this might be virus related, so I updated my
virus definitions and found out I had w32.blaster.worm as
well as the C,E, and F variants. Norton anti virus
removed this and I deleted some keys from the registry
corresponding to the virus files. Norton found no other
viruses at the time, but later when I was on the net again
it found w32.hllw.gaobot.gen. The file couldn't be
repaired so I went to find it and delete it. The computer
couldn't find it! When I go explore that directory,
nothing comes up--no icons for items in that directory. I
downloaded the tool for the worm removal and it couldn't
find it either. (scanned in safe mode as well as
regular). The message indicating that I have this virus
in file C:\winnt\system32\winhlpp32.exe keeps coming up,
but I can never find the file and Norton doesn't get rid
of it.

Later Norton said it found w32.welchia.b.worm in file
c:\documents and settings\default User\Local Settings\Temp
Internet Files\Content IE5\EPOLYXQJ|WksPathc[1].exe.
Norton didn't do anything about this file, so I found it
and deleted it.

The problem is that I keep getting the SVCHOST.exe error
and I can't figure out why. I am updating Windows now,
but that error keeps me from doing it a lot of times
(comes up during the downloads).

Sorry for the length!! Can anyone help???

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