Win2K svchost.exe running at 99% CPU utilization

[kmcdowell]

Recently I ran into a problem on my laptop, the fan kept
on turning on. Up until a few days ago, it never turned on
(except when saving a large Visio diagram). Now it runs
about 50% of the day, and CPU utilization for svchost.exe
is pegged most of the day, reading 99% most of the time.

Any idea on what may be causing this abnormal behavior?
Google searching has turned up nothing.

kmcdowell

 

[Colon Terminus]

Your laptop has a virus.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Your laptop has a virus.

Hi

It can also have been caused by the KB835732
security update.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Please go to one or more of the below online scanners and perform a scan of your platform
then report back your results.

Trend:
http://housecall.antivirus.com
http://housecall.trendmicro.com

McAfee:
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp

Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

Symantec:
http://security.symantec.com/

Dave




| Recently I ran into a problem on my laptop, the fan kept
| on turning on. Up until a few days ago, it never turned on
| (except when saving a large Visio diagram). Now it runs
| about 50% of the day, and CPU utilization for svchost.exe
| is pegged most of the day, reading 99% most of the time.
|
| Any idea on what may be causing this abnormal behavior?
| Google searching has turned up nothing.
|
| kmcdowell

 

[kmcdowell]

I checked, and do not have that security update installed.
Additionally, I use eTrust AV software and did a full scan
with the latest signature (23.64.85) and did not find
anything. I also checked the size of the svchost.exe file,
and found it at the correct size, 7.76KB. Someone had
mentioned in another thread that there was a Trojan that
could take over this file that was larger than the normal
file.

kmcdowell

 

[David H. Lipman]

There are dozens of infectors that either infect the MS SVCHOST file or use their own file
with that name.

Dave




| I checked, and do not have that security update installed.
| Additionally, I use eTrust AV software and did a full scan
| with the latest signature (23.64.85) and did not find
| anything. I also checked the size of the svchost.exe file,
| and found it at the correct size, 7.76KB. Someone had
| mentioned in another thread that there was a Trojan that
| could take over this file that was larger than the normal
| file.
|
| kmcdowell
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Hi
| >
| >It can also have been caused by the KB835732
| >security update.
| >
| >
| >--
| >torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
| >Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
| >the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
| >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/de
| fault.mspx
| >.
| >