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firewall blocking incoming svchost

Comment:

do svchost run services from pc to pc if so what for and should my firewall keep blocking? also i have 17 svchost on my pc 2 are inactive with no service rinning and 1 inactive svchost with 30 inactive services should svchost be running so many sevices at 1 time?

Reply:

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