Svchost..? Created 20 years ago2004-05-23 17:16:33 UTC by Saribous

Can someone tell me what it is, is it a virus or something? when i look at processes there are like 5 svchost runnin' at the same time, and when idle, my computer uses 50% of its processor power.. what's going on??

SVChost is always running, nothing suspicious about it.

SVCHOST is like RUNDLL, it allows programs that are .DLLs instead of .EXEs to run. Having several of them is perfectly normal - on a 2K-base OS, if you have this running on 9x then it's a virus.

Seventh, close and partly true. Svchost is a special windows service that controls several vital services including the Remote Proceadure Call. If you try and close one of the svchost processes running under SYSTEM, you will get that Rmote shutdown error which the msblast virus causes. The reason that happens is cos it assigns ports, controls other services etc etc. The Svchost.exe is only a part of 2k/XP. Altho other windows systems have an rpc process. That RUNDLL thing, seventh, im not sure bout that. RunDll is used for every dll launch as far as I know. But, whatever it does, it isn't a virus. BUT, if something called svshost is running, be worried. It is a trojan, but svchost isnt!

The vital services it handles are DLLs It's a DLL hosted by SVCHOST that manages ports.

I don't give a rat's ass what it does as long it's not a virus

Thanx for the help everyone, now i can finally get some sleep