svchost

[steve]

Hi
Can anyone tell me what the following means and will
it do any harm to my system coz i have not got a clue.
C:WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe is preparing to access the
internet.
Thanxs

[Nicholas]

A Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;Q314056


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"steve" > wrote in message:
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| Hi
| Can anyone tell me what the following means and will=20
| it do any harm to my system coz i have not got a clue.
| C:WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe is preparing to access the=20
| internet.
| Thanxs

[Ilmarinen]

If you have Windows 200, check out
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q250/3/20.ASP; if you have
Windows XP, look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314056. Hope this
answers your question.



"steve" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
> Can anyone tell me what the following means and will
> it do any harm to my system coz i have not got a clue.
> C:WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe is preparing to access the
> internet.
> Thanxs

[Chek]

Steve,
Seeing as how you posted over an hour ago, and no reply so far, I got this
from the first Google search item:
A. Svchost is a generic host process that hosts services run from DLLs. To
find out what's inside each copy of svchost.exe, use the Resource Kit
Support Tools' list.exe (with the -s switch). (You need to install the
Support Tools from \support\tools on your product CD-ROM; they don't install
by default.)
The last part is a bit unnecessary for us home users, but you will find
several instances of svchost running in your processes panel
It's a legitimate XP process.
Hope this helps,
Chek

"steve" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
> Can anyone tell me what the following means and will
> it do any harm to my system coz i have not got a clue.
> C:WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe is preparing to access the
> internet.
> Thanxs