SVCHOST.EXE

[Dave]

I seemed to have contracted some spyware I can't get rid
of. I have used CWshredder, Highjackthis, and Spybot. My
norton anti-virus got rid of trojan.bitvariety, earlier.
My home page still changes and SVCHOST.exe seems to be
the problem, maybe i'm wrong. I've looked up this file
and Microsoft says it's part of the system. CWshredder
and Spybot are updated but find nothing. Highjackthis
will not get rid of it. Norton scan comes clean. Any help
with this matter would be greatly appreciated, I already
deleted IE executable file out of frustration, ooops.

 

[Dave]

I seemed to have contracted some spyware I can't get rid
of. I have used CWshredder, Highjackthis, and Spybot. My
norton anti-virus got rid of trojan.bitvariety, earlier.
My home page still changes and SVCHOST.exe seems to be
the problem, maybe i'm wrong. I've looked up this file
and Microsoft says it's part of the system. CWshredder
and Spybot are updated but find nothing. Highjackthis
will not get rid of it. Norton scan comes clean. Any help
with this matter would be greatly appreciated, I already
deleted IE executable file out of frustration, ooops.

svchost.exe is a normal part of windows xp and i normally see up to four
instances of it run all the time.

 

[Guest]

have you tried the nachi removal tool from sophos?
If your system has been infected and not completley
cleaned it may leave this.

 

[Guest]

Also,
Please see the above post on Nachi. It too affects SVHost. That's where it
was resident in my comptuer.