svchost.exe - Possible Virus?

[Bob Pearce - Australia]

Can svchost.exe be a virus? I have it only recently running several
instances at once sometimes using 50% of CPU power. My CA Vet virus checker
nor spybot S&D report any problem, please assist! Thanks.

 

[Malke]

Can svchost.exe be a virus? I have it only recently running several
instances at once sometimes using 50% of CPU power. My CA Vet virus
checker nor spybot S&D report any problem, please assist! Thanks.

It is common for multiple versions of svchost.exe to be running. See:

Svchost.exe in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056/EN-US/
and
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/svchost.htm

Malke

 

[JS]

From Ramesh's web site: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/svchost.htm
Also: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056

To find out more about Svchost.exe entries try Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane' options.
(This will provide some of the detailed info you may need)
Expand the Process tree until 'Services.exe' has been expanded.
Next move the mouse cursor over the Svchost.exe process that you are
interested in.
Or expand the Svchost entry if you see a + sign to the left of Svchost
entry.
(You should now see a pop up with a list of services associated with the
Svchost.exe you chose)
Next double click on the Svchost.exe process that you are interested in.
The 'Properties' Window should now be displayed with numerous tabs
available.

JS

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Bob Pearce - Australia" <bob(nospam)@justmail.biz>

| Can svchost.exe be a virus? I have it only recently running several
| instances at once sometimes using 50% of CPU power. My CA Vet virus checker
| nor spybot S&D report any problem, please assist! Thanks.


It is NOT important how many instances of SVCHOST.EXE are running but WHERE they are
running from !

Please review the thread ""svchost.exe" appears several times in the Windows Task
Manager."
Started: Wednesday, May 14

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

See this discussion: http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=33281

 

[Mike Baudoux]

i just got done dealling with this bugger reformatted 2 times and i traced
it too Roxio after sp3 installed

I uninstall roxio cd burning software but windows uses roxio for its cd
burning software and the cpu usage went away

hopes this helps

mike

 

[Twayne]

Can svchost.exe be a virus? Yes. But not necessarily; it just "can"

be.

I have it only recently running several

instances at once sometimes using 50% of CPU power.

50% isn't "power", it's cpu Time. e.g. half the time it's running that
svchost. Depending on what the computer is doing, and when, and what
background tasks are running and a few other things, this could be
normal. It could be doing anything from background defrags to indexing
to ... all kinds of things and stop the second you do something on the
computer that needs that time.
You could have multiple svchost.exe's running; at the moment, I have
6 of them running.

My CA Vet virus

checker nor spybot S&D report any problem, please assist! Thanks.

YOu're probably OK.

WHY do you ask? Is the system having any problems?

HTH