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Svchost.exe

by shebz7 May 29, 2005 5:40AM PDT

svchost.exe
well this is somethimg thats in my taskmanager's progress area and i suspect it downloads somethimg on my pc as soon as i connect it to the internet as something in its memory start moving and also my data transfer rate starts moving.there are two svchost.exe displayed in this area.
plz help how to remove it
i have tried avg and nortan 2003 system works but to no avail so plz help me in the manner and regard.

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Nothing sinister about that.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 29, 2005 6:43AM PDT

Svchost is the catchall networking workhorse of this OS.

Read http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/svchost.exe.html

Bob

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As Bob noted...

by Edward ODaniel Jun 7, 2005 4:08AM PDT

that is a much misunderstood service.

Follow this link and download (read about it first) System Internal's free Process Explorer
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

you can use it to check each instance of Svchost.exe as well as every other running process. Very handy to understand what is going on inside that computer.

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thanks

by shebz7 Jun 10, 2005 3:12AM PDT

thanks for your time and suggetions

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