Shortly after going on-line, a dialog box appears: "sychost.exe has generated errors & will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. an error log has been created." After that, certain buttons on web sites no longer function, for instance the LOG-ON button on my bank web site. Most other functions of web-surfing are OK though. When you try to disconnect, the icon in the tray to the lower right will not enlarge nor allow you to disconnect. Only by shutting down the computer can the phone line be disconnected. Booting up and reconnecting, the same scenario --everything works fine until the error dialog box quoted above shows up in a few minutes. I have tried to find the file sychost.exe, but searching in Windows Explorer cannot find it. I thought maybe this problem had to do with Internet Explorer, so I downloaded the latest enhancements. This had no effect. I downloaded Netscape, and used it as a browser, but again no effect on the sychost.exe problem. So it must be something in windows 2000 program itself. Thanks everyone for your thoughts.

I have exactly the same problem, but surely you mean svchost.exe? I'm not a computer guy, so I don't know what that program does; however, I suspect the problems are caused by this "blaster" worm everyone's talking about f---ing up the registry. I've installed Norton anti-virus, and used Symantec's removal tool (available from http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html), both of which tell me that my computer is now free of W32.Blaster.Worm, but the problem persists. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Thanks.

Have someone get and burn service pack 3 and service pack 4 to CD for your Win2K system other wise you are SOL or you may have to have them send it to you on CD. you may be able to go to www.panda.com and run the on line antivirus to remove the existing problem ,go to task manager and look for msblaster.exe and end task also end task on dllhost that might solve partially problem till you can get and install all patches. Also check your error logs under computer management you will find some indication of what has failed to run or is being shut down If this does not work post the error messages that show and the time stamp in relationship to each problem Don't forget to restart in a last good boot mode also remember to run chkdsk/r grom the command prompt on all your drives that might help clear up and repair existing problems contributing to your misery. Still one more method would be to extract and replace the offending svchost.exe from the original CD which may then enable to avoid reloading windows good luck I am researching this and ,may have more to add in the next 12 hours

Here are more related bits and pieces culd from many sources Q. Why are there so many copies of svchost.exe on my machine? A. Svchost is a generic host process that hosts services run from DLLs. During development, it's customary to separate new or changing services to increase the reliability and ease of troubleshooting; thus, on a beta OS version, you see more svchost processes running than on a release version. To find out what's inside each copy of svchost.exe, use the Resource Kit Support Tools' tlist.exe (with the -s switch). (You need to install the Support Tools from \support\tools on your product CD-ROM; they don't install by default.) Below is sample output from the tlist command: C:\>tlist -s 0 System Process 4 System 176 smss.exe 208 csrss.exe Title: 172 winlogon.exe Title: NetDDE Agent 256 services.exe Svcs: Eventlog,PlugPlay 268 lsass.exe Svcs: Netlogon,PolicyAgent,ProtectedStorage,SamSs 320 svchost.exe Svcs: RpcSs 420 svchost.exe Svcs: AudioSrv,Browser,CryptSvc,Dhcp,dmserver, EventSystem,FastUserSwitchingCompatibilityServices,helpsvc,HidServ, lanmanserver,lanmanworkstation,Netman,Nla,Schedule,seclogon,SENS, ShellHWDetection,TermService,ThemeService,TrkWks,uploadmgr,W32Time, WmdmPmSp,wuauser 480 svchost.exe Svcs: Dnscache 500 svchost.exe Svcs: LmHosts,Messenger,RemoteRegistry,SSDPSRV,WebClient 544 spoolsv.exe Svcs: Spooler 660 DKService.exe Svcs: Diskeeper 800 svchost.exe Svcs: winmgmt 1092 explorer.exe Title: Program Manager 1244 ctfmon.exe Title: 900 ISATRAY.exe Title: IsaTray 1344 NAVAPW32.exe Title: Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect 1212 FRONTPG.exe Title: Microsoft FrontPage - D:\asp www.ntfaq.com\NTFAQ\5apr2001.htm 428 NAVAPSVC.exe Svcs: NAV Auto-Protect 1376 ALERTSVC.exe Svcs: NAV Alert 1372 PowerDVD.exe Title: PowerDVD 444 OUTLOOK.exe Title: Tasks - Microsoft Outlook 1268 msmsgs.exe Title: 1436 MDM.exe Title: OleMainThreadWndName 632 WINWORD.exe Title: DDE Server Window 1404 IEXPLORE.exe Title: Q250320 - Description of Svchost.exe - Microsoft Internet Explorer 1348 cmd.exe Title: E:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe - tlist -s 1428 tlist.exe Many services, drivers, and modules load at system startup and are essential to system operation. Even though they show up in Task Manager, they're still critical. The svchosts are defined in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost. Some sucess stories in clearing the problem http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1060646378 Well, you need to do the following on the particular svc that is tying up your resources to see which program is involved: To view the list of services that are running in Svchost: Click Start on the Windows taskbar, and then click Run. In the Open box, type CMD, and then press ENTER. Type Tasklist /SVC, and then press ENTER. Tasklist displays a list of active processes. The /SVC switch shows the list of active services in each process. For further information about a process, type the following command, and then press ENTER: Tasklist /FI "PID eq processID" (with the quotation marks) Then you should at least know what the culprit is. also you might find If you don't use Windows messenger and you think that is what is causing your svchost problem you can do one of two things. 1. Close windows messenger and go in your program files folder and rename the folder named Messenger to Messenger Backup OR 2. Just delete the Messenger folder if you are sure you are never going to use it. This may or may not solve your problem but everytime you load outlook windows messenger loads again. This solution never lets messenger load again until you rename the folder Messenger. This also lets you save memory.

I've sorted my problem out - perhaps this will help OFG. There is a patch called Windows2000-KB823980-x86-ENU obtainable from http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp, but I couldn't run it initially because I hadn't kept up to date with service packs. I downloaded the latest service pack SP4express_EN.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=dc27b8c6-2a5a-4399-ad3d-4a97a25f41d9 and installed it, thinking that was it - job done. Unfortunately the problem OFG describes was still there, however, after then running the patch all seems to be going just fine :0). If you go to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp you can find out which bits of microsoft stuff you're missing.

This is the MBlast Worm. If you look in your Admin Tools-Event Log you will find problems with DCOM and the Service Manager. Go to this URL that has the fix for this. http://www.datafellows.fi/download-purchase/tools.shtml Happy Trails & Have a Fine Microsoft Day

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