Programs trying to access the internet

[Steve Hayes]

I've been having a lot of excess bandwidth usage lately, and I'm tryinbg to
find out what is causing it, and what programs should be allowed to access the
Internet, and why.

One that keeps trying is "generic Host Process for Win32 Services"

Does anyone know what that is, and if it is legitimate, and why it needs to
access the internet?

There are also incoming calls for svchost.exe from 169.254.62.23

Whaty business do they have on my computer?

 

[JD]

I've been having a lot of excess bandwidth usage lately, and I'm tryinbg to
find out what is causing it, and what programs should be allowed to access the
Internet, and why.

One that keeps trying is "generic Host Process for Win32 Services"

Does anyone know what that is, and if it is legitimate, and why it needs to
access the internet?

There are also incoming calls for svchost.exe from 169.254.62.23

Whaty business do they have on my computer?

I use this to see who's dialing in and out:

http://www.arin.net/whois/

https://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=169.254.62.23

Then I do a Ask.com search for the resulting names:

http://www.icann.org/en/about/

http://www.computing.net/answers/security/generic-host-process-for-win32-services/272.html

 

[Hot-text]

The "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services" is "svchost.exe" in Task
Manager. You'll see that there's usually at least 5 or 6 of them in Task
Manager and it's a very important service because it hosts other services
and handles all the processes from DLL files - basically it's a very
important service and should never really be messed with unless you really
know what you're doing.


DO you have BitTorrent ?
Do you Download DVD, to your PC ?

 

[Steve Hayes]

The "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services" is "svchost.exe" in Task
Manager. You'll see that there's usually at least 5 or 6 of them in Task
Manager and it's a very important service because it hosts other services
and handles all the processes from DLL files - basically it's a very
important service and should never really be messed with unless you really
know what you're doing.

So it's OK to allow it to access the Internet?

DO you have BitTorrent ?

Never heard iof it.

Do you Download DVD, to your PC ?

Never.

I use NoScript, which blocks video and podcasts too.

 

[Hot-text]

SVCHOST User are
System
NetWork_Service
Local_Service

MS [MPV] more info Please on SVCHOST


BitTorrent you say that you : Never heard of it
For Netscape and Opera can Download torrents and sharing files..
it can excess bandwidth usage if you the one only seed at first
Read: Limitations:: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)

BandWidth two kinds USE
Local << is Free>>
Internet << you Pay for>>

 

[Jim]

SVCHOST User are
System
NetWork_Service
Local_Service

MS [MPV] more info Please on SVCHOST

The OP can use Process Explorer to examine the command string given to
svchost by each process. This string shows what an indivual instance of
svchost is doing.

System is used for processes which must be run with full privileges. There
is no account name System because these processes are started by the
operating system. Such processes do not need to login.
NetWork_Service and Local_Servics are used with processes which can be run
will limited privileges, but they do need to login.

Jim
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