re: svchosts.exe is a Trojan!! so be aware
Monday, January 20, 2003 at 9:20 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MELTDOWN
(1 messages posted)
You are correct. I recently had this problem. Please I am personally trying to
crack down on who installed this on my system. What happens is somehow it is placed
in the windows\system32\svchosts.exe on your computer it is told to run at startup
in your systems registry. To remove it, do a search for all svchosts.exe files on
your computer and search the registry for it as well. It will be a hidden file so
make sure you tell it to look for hidden files. This program, although altered by
many, sends out information toa pre-set address over the interenet. For example
before removing mine I did a little detective work and found out that it was sending
1k packets to raptor.guild1337.com on port 7070. Either way, remove it immediatly
from your system. This is a common trojan and everyone should check their system
for this running program.
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 4:29 am, Tim Olsen wrote:
>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!
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