Thanks Mike, but I do mean msthost.exe (817kb) and altsvc.exe (13kb) ...both
located in system32 directory..as correctly mentioned earlier.
I have the latest 4 April NAV update and run the scan regularly...I have
also undergone free online scans of Panda and Trend....but nothing was
detected.
I couldn't get any information about these two processes running in the
background...


"Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User)" wrote in
message ...
If you mean alertsvc.exe and mshost.exe, the first thing you need to do
is
make sure your antivirus software is up to date and run a scan.

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"Ratan Maitra" wrote in message
...
Of late I have noticed msthost.exe and altsvc.exe (both located in
Windows/system32) are
running in the background. .....and msthost tries to connect to the
internet
immediately after logging on..
What are these, any ideas??