-----Original Message----- From: Richard Daawes [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SVCHOST grabbing CPU time, leaking memory and hanging PC
> My Theory: > As well as SVCHOST.EXE having registry entries which define what it loads, I > perceive it uses an old > MSDOS trick and has 'holes' for a developer to patch with their programming > customisations which > would account for alleged identical copies causing running issues. Huh?!? Svchost.exe is a service host. It's a place where services can run without implementing their own process. > The two copies of svchost.exe on the PC have the same size and version > numbers, but their > date/time stamps differ and of course the badly behaved one carries the date > of the thwarted trojan infection. What are the two locations where you are seeing svchost.exe located on your system? If it's 32bit, there should only be one copy that is used. > Oh and BTW if anyone knows of the fix to Firefox and Youtube vids that would > be a welcom bonus too. Youtube videos "not playing" is a symptom of a problem. But we don't know what the problem is yet, so it's a bit hard to give you a solution. Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
