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"svshost.exe"
Hello, and thanks in advance -
Sometimes, when I have to "help" a program stop, Task Manager shows me that many instances of "svchost.exe" are running - sometimes seven or eight. Is this normal? If not, what is to be done about it? Thanks... Steve E. |
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"svshost.exe"
On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:46:17 GMT, "Serious_Practitioner"
wrote: Hello, and thanks in advance - Sometimes, when I have to "help" a program stop, Task Manager shows me that many instances of "svchost.exe" are running - sometimes seven or eight. Is this normal? If not, what is to be done about it? Thanks... Steve E. Steve, It is normal to have multiple copies of "svchost.exe" running - svchost.exe is a general purpose task for running essential system processes. Here is a useful website for information about svchost.exe, and other system processes: http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm However, if you Google for "svshost.exe", you will probably find that is a malware infection symptom. Many malware components intentionally use names that are misspelled variants of "svchost.exe" - "scvhost.exe", "svshost.exe", etc... http://www.liutilities.com/products/...brary/svshost/ Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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