What is svchost.exe?

[George Weischadle]

This pops up as a firewall alert every minute or so on my PC. Is this some
kind of Microsoft spyware?

[As]

dn. 21 10 (wtorek), George Weischadle napisal(a)

> This pops up as a firewall alert every minute or so on my PC. Is this some
> kind of Microsoft spyware?

System Process
http://www.liutilities.com/products/...brary/svchost/

[Chuck]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:21:57 GMT, "George Weischadle"
<gweischadle@earthlink.net> wrote:

>This pops up as a firewall alert every minute or so on my PC. Is this some
>kind of Microsoft spyware?

It's a Micro**** generalised process catch-all service. If you want
to find out what service is causing it to popup, get Process Explorer
from http://www.sysinternals.com

Run PE, find the svchost instance, under Properties - Services you'll
see a list of services that's running thru it. Go to Black Viper's
website and look up the service in question.
http://www.blkviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm


Chuck
I hate spam - PLEASE get rid of the spam before emailing me!
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Vanguard]

You should first search Microsoft's own knowledgebase since many topics
are already there.

- Go to http://support.microsoft.com/.
- Advanced search.
- Search on "svchost" for "Windows 2000" (or "Windows XP").
- Voila! Read the article describing svchost.

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"George Weischadle" <gweischadle@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> This pops up as a firewall alert every minute or so on my PC. Is this
some
> kind of Microsoft spyware?
>
>

[Giel]

its a embedded process from one of your services, listed in your manager
under services, probably nothing to worry about..

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"George Weischadle" <gweischadle@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> This pops up as a firewall alert every minute or so on my PC. Is this
some
> kind of Microsoft spyware?
>
>