svchost.exe takes 99%CPU time

[anny]

Hi,

While am stress testing my network application(which uses
modems and phone lines), I find at one point of time CPU
usage shoots upto 99% and it is svchost.exe which takes
the CPU time. After that I am not able to open any other
application in my PC, not even explorer.
I am not able to kill svchost.exe from task manager.
But once I kill my application, CPU utilization comes down.

Can anyone provide some help on this by replying to this
groups.

Regards,
anny

 

[Martí Serrano]

Have you checked it isn't a variant of backdoor.beasty virus?
http://www.winnetmag.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=40528

 

[Vanguard]

From a search on "svchost" for Windows 2000 at
http://support.microsoft.com/:

Description of Svchost.exe in Windows 2000
http://snurl.com/2nbh

Go into your Services, look at the properties of any unknown or suspect
services, and see the program that gets loaded for that service. You
might discover a service you really do not want running, like Indexing
Service, or you might find a service you don't think should be running
and may be suspect.