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Svchost.exe problems
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| ciscokid79 2004-01-07, 9:58 pm |
| My system is running very poorly and when I open task manager I see there several svchost.exe running and making my cpu run at 100%. What can I do to get this to stop?
I am aware of the virus that causes this but upon running a virus scan I get a no virus found report. | |
| ciscokid79 2004-01-08, 9:29 am |
| What is the name of the command line utility that checks to see if system files were overwritten? I'll try that as a last resort. | |
| azimuth40 2004-01-10, 11:19 pm |
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Originally posted by ciscokid79
My system is running very poorly and when I open task manager I see there several svchost.exe running and making my cpu run at 100%. What can I do to get this to stop?
I am aware of the virus that causes this but upon running a virus scan I get a no virus found report.
Just happened to see this. If your problem is not solved svchost is not your problem. svchost is a facilitator and is just a generic name for services that run from *.dll files. The task list does not show the true task because services can be grouped in the registry to be launched by one copy of svchost. You can have multiple instances of svchost running with one or more services. Because of this it is often used to hide a virus, however most times it is the incomplete instantiation of some service or a hung service.
If you are running XP then open a command window and type the following
tasklist /svc > Services.txt
services.txt will contain a list of the current tasklist with services expanded so that you can see what is going on.
Win2k uses tlist.exe and it will have to be extracted from your install CD. Refer to the following knowledge base articles for XP
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...b;EN-US;314056
and for win2k
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...b;EN-US;250320 | |
| ciscokid79 2004-01-10, 11:24 pm |
| Thanks for the tip. I went ahead and reformatted hard disk, so I am having no problems now  I will keep this mind if this ever happens again. | |
| Tarzanboy 2004-01-11, 3:22 pm |
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Originally posted by ciscokid79
What is the name of the command line utility that checks to see if system files were overwritten? I'll try that as a last resort.
SFC.exe |
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