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re: Svchost vague
Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 9:00 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5965 messages posted)
You can be infected with malware that may not be (easily)detected, a bad driver,
bad piece of software, or a malfunctioning piece of hardware. Check the Event Viewer
for errors and warnings. It's difficult troubleshooting this type of problem from
a forum.
Might start with this link:
http://ask-leo.com/svchost_and_svchostexe_crashs_cpu_maximization_viruses_exploits_and_more.html
Trying to kill a Windows needed service and/or setting the affinity isn't the answer.
It only makes things worse. You will have at least two or more service hosts running
depending on what you have installed or do with your system. I have 6 running on
my machine and all are needed.
If you are sharing files, then it is likely you are infected somewhere. If you can't
find the cause, you may end up reinstalling the system clean to get rid of the problem
and take note when installing and running programs to see when it starts again..
In many cases it takes less time doing that than trying to fix the system.
On Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 12:24 am, Dave wrote:
>I have two active svchost.exe running on my W2K (SP4). So far no problems. Until
>yesterday when one of the svchost dances around 50-100% cpu usage.
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>I've examined services registered in this process and found only this : http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=svchostom8.png
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>If I destroy this process it makes general working very hard. No more copy-paste,
>all icons in folders and desktop are basically locked. Latest NOD, CounterSpy, checked
>with Hijack and TrojanRemover. Not even a hint of a some nasty reason for this occurrence.
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>Perhaps I've overlooked something? How do I resolve this process to continue working
>in normal fashion without this present unnecessary hunger for CPUs.
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>If I set affinity in Sysinternals Process Explorer to only one core, then at times,
>goes 30% less hungry.
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>Thanks for you suggestions
- Written in response to:
- Svchost vague (Dave: Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 12:24 am)
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