svchosts.exe is a Trojan!! so be aware
Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 4:29 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tim Olsen
(2 messages posted)
You should all be aware that there is a huge difference between svchosts.exe and
svchost.exe. The last one is a is the generic host process for services that are
run from dynamic-link libraries. whereis the first one called svchosts.exe is a trojan
horse. Remove it if you got it!
On Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 11:44 am, Bob wrote:
>For about 7 minutes after I boot up my Win2000 machine, services.exe, svchost.exe
>and system combine to consume 100% of the cpu, with services and svchost using the
>most. Is there any way to determine the service(s) that are causing this? This
>is a rather recent occurance but I can't backtrack and figure out what changes might
>be causing it. I recently upgraded both my video and hd controller drivers to the
>latest versions.
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