What is SCVHOST.EXE?

[katzlalger]

And why is it suddenly trying to hog up 99-100% of my
processor time? I have no clue where this thing came from
but it's here now or at least active trying to do god-
knows-what. I changed it's processing priority to LOW
and actually am able to do things. This happend a couple
of days ago at the same time my wife's half of the PC
refused to log onto the web. Tries to redirect to
someplace called www.incredifind.com...big long sting to
a dead end.

Thanks for the help.

Katzlalger

 

[Jack]

do a GOOGLE search...it'll explain it to you......

 

[Scott M.]

For your sake, Jack, I hope you never ask a question here and get such a
stupid answer.

 

[tech]

Google will tell you what SVChost is but it is a service
needed for Windows likely you are having difficulty with
it because of a virus you should update your virus scanner
and san for viruses

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

It's a trojan horse. You are infected. See:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.sdbot.n.html

Tom
| And why is it suddenly trying to hog up 99-100% of my
| processor time? I have no clue where this thing came from
| but it's here now or at least active trying to do god-
| knows-what. I changed it's processing priority to LOW
| and actually am able to do things. This happend a couple
| of days ago at the same time my wife's half of the PC
| refused to log onto the web. Tries to redirect to
| someplace called www.incredifind.com...big long sting to
| a dead end.
|
| Thanks for the help.
|
| Katzlalger

 

[Hilary]

There is a legitimate windows system file called Svchost.exe. This is
necessary for XP to work..but Scvhost.exe is from a virus as others have
said.