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General => General Discussion => Computer Talk => Topic started by: BlackPearl on October 12, 2006, 01:03:18 PM

Title: Virus?
Post by: BlackPearl on October 12, 2006, 01:03:18 PM: Hello,
My PC is acting really slow the last few weeks, i was searching for the solution untill i saw this.
Please look at this picture:
[img]http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/4176/virusct9.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IPB Image\" /]

As u can see u see ALLOT of svghost.exe's, when i try to end this .exe's i get a windows pop-up saying that my PC will shut down.
And u can see the IEXPLORE.exe's, i cant remove those 2, when i do a new one will pop up.

Someone please help me, i think this i one of the main reason's my PC is asking really slow.

Thanks already.
Title: Virus?
Post by: Spoofy on October 12, 2006, 01:09:01 PM: I think I can safely say that svchost.exe is not a virus
Title: Virus?
Post by: BlackPearl on October 12, 2006, 01:10:35 PM: lol, but why are there so many of them.
And what about the IEEXPLORE thingy's?
Title: Virus?
Post by: VenomX on October 12, 2006, 01:18:59 PM: More than one...likely to be virused. That exe can contain many viruses inside it.
Title: Virus?
Post by: Tackleberry on October 12, 2006, 01:24:37 PM: I have many svchost.exe's too, and I'm pretty sure they aren't virus...
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Post by: VenomX on October 12, 2006, 01:26:10 PM: 10+ usually means you're infected. They are only used to load up stuff when you boot your pc, but sometimes people can manage to put nasty things inside them.
Title: Virus?
Post by: Spoofy on October 12, 2006, 01:26:23 PM: Get Fox in here, pronto
Title: Virus?
Post by: Brainkiller on October 12, 2006, 01:28:18 PM: Limewire and Firefox are using a dumb amount of process, same with me... Firefox uses so much it's ridiculous

Btw, download Ad-Aware
Title: Virus?
Post by: Aries on October 12, 2006, 01:38:51 PM: Svchost = Good, dont try ending them lol, a normal virus scanner will get rid of any harmful replicated ones.

IExplorer = Internet Explorer, dont open that if you dont need to.

Limewire = Limewire, shut that down if you arent using it as well.

Everything else seems to be normal, just run some spyware checks with Ad-aware personal, some types of spyware can really make your computer slow.
Title: Virus?
Post by: Energise on October 12, 2006, 02:08:00 PM: Just scan it with any good anti virus program * Norton * .
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Post by: plumpegg on October 12, 2006, 02:11:33 PM: Well its a virus i think , my pc is lagging to ,

Look hove much i have...
Title: Virus?
Post by: Aries on October 12, 2006, 02:19:48 PM: A virus would be doing something other than sitting there, just do a virus scan, delete any that come up, and then do a spyware scan
Title: Virus?
Post by: plumpegg on October 12, 2006, 02:39:06 PM: Ok Aries Thx
Title: Virus?
Post by: Neo Anderson on October 12, 2006, 02:46:49 PM: svchost is NOT a virus

"Svchost.exe" (Generic Host Process for Win32 Services) is an integral part of Windows OS. It cannot be stopped or restarted manually. It manages 32-bit DLLs and other services. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the registry to construct a list of services that it needs to load. In normal conditions multiple instances of Svchost.exe run at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that separate services can be run depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This allows for better control and debugging.
Title: Virus?
Post by: treeunit on October 12, 2006, 02:49:03 PM
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Post by: Jason on October 12, 2006, 02:53:22 PM: my pc is running uber slow... my toshiba satellite pro 4300 laptop boots up faster, and its over 10 years old
Title: Virus?
Post by: Aries on October 12, 2006, 02:55:25 PM: Quote from: treeunit

You sir, have a virus. Something is DEFINATLY not right there. 30,000kb for Svchost.exe.....HAH.
Title: Virus?
Post by: Jason on October 12, 2006, 05:42:41 PM: here is what my task manager says:

[img]http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h144/HAYW1R3/taskmanager.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IPB Image\" /]
Title: Virus?
Post by: Fate on October 12, 2006, 11:43:15 PM
Title: Virus?
Post by: Jason on October 12, 2006, 11:48:01 PM: svchost.exe FTW!!!!

dude theres only 8 things running that arent svchost.exe! i think you need to sort things out

and my processes list is still the biggest