The message is indicating some unnamed application is using svchost.exe to
access a place it is not supposed to go. It could be a virus or spyware.
How are you with regard to checking for viruses and spyware. Do you have a
Firewall installed? Any Norton or McAfee utilities?
You should update your virus definitions and run full anti-virus scan. If
you do not have anti-virus programme installed you can run a free scan from
the internet. Try this link:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
Spyware causes many problems. If not installed download Adaware and update
Reference file from
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
and use it to remove parasites.
If you are still encountering unexplained processes after trying these
measures then you might look at trying other more sophisticated spyware
tools.
Another approach is to try to identify which application is using
svchost.exe but bear in mind that there may be 3/4 applications using
svchost.exe at any one time. You will need to isolate which is causing the
access violation. Task Manager is useful but you could look at another
freeware utility Process Explorer, which provides similar information but
adds that little bit extra towards seeing what the running processes
represent. For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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