svchost uses HUGE amount of memory

[Andy]

XP-Home: Even when I fresh-boot and only have a small Word
doc open, svchost memory use continuously increases to
900+ Meg, causing virtual memory issues and slowness.
Please help.

 

[Rich Barry]

Andy, do a search for spyware, adware and trojans. You can use these
websites
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://safespy.net/Spyware_Hunter.htm

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

http://spybot-spyware.com/trojan.htm

http://www.spysweeper.com/

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/