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jarod floyd
Hello,
I am having a confusing problem with SVCHost.exe and our clients. All
clients are running Windows XP SP2 with all the latest updates except for IE
7. So far it is only isolated to certain clients which are Dell Optiplex GX1
PII and PIIIs. The only thing different from all the other clients in our
network is the hardware itself. For some reason SVCHost.exe eats up all of
the memory and CPU running as high as 150MB of memory and 100% CPU. I ran a
process viewer and file monitor and found that has some relation to .NET
framework 2.0. It keeps going over and over the packages in
C:\WINDOWS\Installer. If I kill SVCHost.exe it of course kills windows.
Removing .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 seems to help some of our clients and
simply doing a repair of the network connection helped the others. I have
disabled System Restore and removed the folder and files, cleaned all temp
folders for user and system, as well as prefetch and temporary internet
files. I defragged the page file and HDD and have scanned with every
adware/virus scanner I can think of. AdAware, Trojanhunter, NOD32, SAVCE,
Spyware Doctor, safety.live.com, and McAfee and turned up nothing. You
would think that it is malicious and if it is I haven't found anything in
the registry concerning SVCHost or any other rouge entries that I have seen
so far. The funny thing is that it is not all of the Dells just a handful
of them. I had a Dell that I put a brand new out of the box HDD in it, out
of the box RAM, and a cleared motherboard in one system, installed Windows
XP SP2, added all updates, put on the domain, and sat there for a minute,
rebooted and got the problem with SVCHost.exe. If you guys need some logs
or whatever I will be happy to post them. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jarod
I am having a confusing problem with SVCHost.exe and our clients. All
clients are running Windows XP SP2 with all the latest updates except for IE
7. So far it is only isolated to certain clients which are Dell Optiplex GX1
PII and PIIIs. The only thing different from all the other clients in our
network is the hardware itself. For some reason SVCHost.exe eats up all of
the memory and CPU running as high as 150MB of memory and 100% CPU. I ran a
process viewer and file monitor and found that has some relation to .NET
framework 2.0. It keeps going over and over the packages in
C:\WINDOWS\Installer. If I kill SVCHost.exe it of course kills windows.
Removing .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 seems to help some of our clients and
simply doing a repair of the network connection helped the others. I have
disabled System Restore and removed the folder and files, cleaned all temp
folders for user and system, as well as prefetch and temporary internet
files. I defragged the page file and HDD and have scanned with every
adware/virus scanner I can think of. AdAware, Trojanhunter, NOD32, SAVCE,
Spyware Doctor, safety.live.com, and McAfee and turned up nothing. You
would think that it is malicious and if it is I haven't found anything in
the registry concerning SVCHost or any other rouge entries that I have seen
so far. The funny thing is that it is not all of the Dells just a handful
of them. I had a Dell that I put a brand new out of the box HDD in it, out
of the box RAM, and a cleared motherboard in one system, installed Windows
XP SP2, added all updates, put on the domain, and sat there for a minute,
rebooted and got the problem with SVCHost.exe. If you guys need some logs
or whatever I will be happy to post them. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jarod