"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.

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.