Re: svchost.exe

From: Jon Erlandson (jerlands_at_NOSPAM.sbcglobal.net)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:33:42 -0600

svchost.exe "hosts" services and loads what the registry tells it to.
Spyware and dialers create registry entries that svchost loads as windows
boots and so if these spyware programs are active, svchost can show high cpu
utilization.

After running your virus and antispyware programs and you still have high
utilization install HijackThis and have the program "scan and save a log
file" and post that log to one of the help forums listed on Tomcoyote (see
link below.) You can also examine the log yourself and copy into google the
name of any suspicious processes and get information on it i.e.,
"services.exe" (if this file is anywhere but in c:\windows\system32 it's a
problem.)

Some great free tools. If you don't have spybot, cwshredder, spywareguard
and HijackThis you should download and install.

 Trend Micro House Call
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

CWShredder
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html

McAfee Stinger
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

HijackThis
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

SpywareGuard
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

"bogie71" <bogie71@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BB73244D-088F-4B34-8B09-77C7B1C68929@microsoft.com...
>I have looked at all the messages in this section dealing with svchost.exe
> causing high system utilization, but I don't see a single response that
> explains what to do to reduce it. I wiped my entire system and rebuilt
> it.
> I've installed McAfee anti-virus and scanned for problems to no avail.
> The
> only software I've installed is Office Standard. I haven't yet installed
> anti-spyware software, but that's next. Since this is affecting so many
> people, is there no one out there with a tested answer to this problem?