svchost using all CPU

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Dean Rogers

I am having trouble with a service using all my processor
time. MS has acknowledged several 3rd party products can
cause the problem with Win2K, but none of the products
they mentioned are installed on my machine. Tslist -s
shows the offending line as follows:

svchost.exe Svcs:
EventSystem,Iprip,Netman,NtmsSvc,RasMan,TapiSrv

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Dean
 
Dean Rogers said:
I am having trouble with a service using all my processor
time. MS has acknowledged several 3rd party products can
cause the problem with Win2K, but none of the products
they mentioned are installed on my machine. Tslist -s
shows the offending line as follows:

svchost.exe Svcs:
EventSystem,Iprip,Netman,NtmsSvc,RasMan,TapiSrv

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Dean
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svchost starts a lot of services (see: Right-click on My Computer,
select Manage->Services and Applications->Services) and six
services doesn't sound excessive. But you should check, for your
own comfort level, what services it does, in fact, start - and delete
them from the list.

You should be aware that svchost.exe 'listens' i.e. it emits IP packets
and although well intentioned, is subject to abuse. In my firewall I block
incoming TCP packets to svchost.exe to prevent hackers from establishing
an external connection with it.

The fact that you have excessive cpu time, in itself indicates a problem,
so do you have a firewall, and is it correctly configured to deny this
abuse?
 
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