SVCHOST.EXE error- Causes?

[James Nero]

Several of our organizations systems have exhibited
SVCHOST.EXE errors during the past few weeks. I suspected
virus/worm infection as the cause, but have found nothing
with any of the current scan tools (fixblast.exe,
stinger.exe, etc) and our Trend virus scans of the system
come up clean.
Aside from virus, what else could be causing this error
that I could troubleshoot?
Thanks for any advice/insights!

 

[thedog]

Do you have the Service Pack 4 installed?
And the other "updates"? (Better yet: Fixes).

 

[Ghazanfar Gul Shamsy]

yup, you need to install an update availbale on microsoft site ( search for
Windows2000-KB823980-x86-ENU.exe)

gg

 

[WJW]

Sounds like the Blaster got you.
Look for SVCHOST.EXE in C:\winnt\system32\wins and delete
it.(need to kill the SVCHOST process (it will be
capitalized) first)
Or look for msblast.exe process and kill it.
Also check your registry for it.
Then install the latest patch.