"Far Canal" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1fd3afd4299f9be7989ed6@news.readfreenews. net...
> Rick wrote
>
>
>>
>> One way to approach it is to look and see who they are talking to. You
>> might try grabbing a copy of TCPView from Sysinternals (which has since
>> been absorbed by Microsoft at http://************/y82msb ) and have it set
>> to autostart. Then watch for your svchost connections and use whois to
>> find
>> out who it is talking to.
>>
>> Off the top of my head, I suspect you will find that it is Microsoft's
>> WGA
>> program module that phones home shortly after booting up a Windows XP
>> system. Try going here:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage
>>
>> for more info.
>>
>>
>>
>
> XP-AntiSpy is very useful for turning off unwanted M$ crap
> http://www.xp-antispy.org/
> Makes it easy to turn parts of it back on for M$ Update. Allegedly.
> Version 3.96-4 has recently appeared and stops automatic install of IE7
> which is causing problems for many.
>

Thank you Kurt, Rick and Far Canal.

WGA certainly took it's toll on my resources. Decided to stick with it
rather than wind back the system to ease the pain of update.

The IE7 install seems to have slowed down the PC as well but IE7 itself
seems to run OK.

Time to start working our what is driving SVCHOST sessions. Thanks again,

--
Steve