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12-27-2006, 08:01 PM
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[HELP] A Running Program
I went to shut down firefox through processes and I saw I have 5 svchost.exe
svchost.exe LOCAL SERVICE
svchost.exe NETWORK SERVICE
svchost.exe SYSTEM
svchost.exe NETWORK SERVICE
svchost.exe SYSTEM
is this normal or is there something is wrong?
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12-27-2006, 08:05 PM
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I have this many normally, I dont think you have anything wrong.
Alex.
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12-27-2006, 08:06 PM
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I hope it's normal because i have 8 svchost.exe processes running.
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12-27-2006, 08:38 PM
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normal; just services running in the background. Run -> MsConfig -> Services (I am not sure What to Turn off, but I know some stuff can be.
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12-27-2006, 08:57 PM
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normal. terminating any of them will make the computer run odd. just beware of scvhost (not vc), its a virus
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12-27-2006, 09:40 PM
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12-27-2006, 10:18 PM
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scvhost.exe is a virus, W32/Agobot-S to be exact. the legit one is svchost.exe. notice the small difference.
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