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svchost.exe (Safe)

Description: From Neuber.com: "Svchost.exe" (Generic Host Process for Win32 Services) is an integral part of Windows OS. It cannot be stopped or restarted manually. It manages 32-bit DLLs and other services. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the registry to construct a list of services that it needs to load. In normal conditions multiple instances of Svchost.exe run at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that separate services can be run depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This allows for better control and debugging.
Severity: Safe
Related Link: Go!
Posted By: Neuber on May 27, 2009 at 12:05:32 Pacific

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Summary: I think I may have deleted the wrong svchost.exe file. I was manually removing viruses from my pc and mistakenly removed it from my registry. What i...

Summary: Hi! For about 2 months I've try to clean my computer and only one thing cannot be cleaned. It's a virus called Hidrag or W32/Jeefo. This is a parasi...

Summary: hi guys, ok well, this virus problem is fixed first of all. i have zonealarm running in the background, and sometimes it asks me to allow SVSHOST.EXE...

Summary: Hello, i usually got 6 instances of svchost.exe running. While 5 of them are using about 4000 kb of memory, the other one uses more than 20000 kb and ...

Summary: hi guys/girls, recently, svchost.exe has been gobblin up my CPU's resources and i dont know how to take this dang thing out...ive tried to end the pro...

Summary: I'm confused about svchost.exe, I currently have 7 svchost's running(4 system, 2 Network service, and 1 Local Service)I heard that in some cases its j...

Summary: I was automatically connecting to porn site & having my home page changed at log-on. I inadvertently deleted all the copies of svchost.exe, thinking ...

Summary: my computer wont bring up the desktop when i log in on my account. i click on it, and it goes to the desktop picture but doesn't load the desktop ico...

Summary: Hi, I think I have been infected with a virus. I heard that if a svchost.exe takes more space than your explorer, than it is a virus. I've scanned m...

Summary: I'm working on a friends pc. It was loaded with trojans and spyware. Had his hard drive hooked to my computer, ran a full a/v scan using McAfee 2005, ...

Summary: Hello, I have a question about the entry svchost.exe in task manager. I recently upgraded to xp and I was wondering how you can be sure that it's not ...

Summary: Can someone please help me? here is a scan of my system using the HijackThis........ My system is running extremely slow, taking hours to send out e-m...

Summary: Hey I run windows xp home and i run zone alarm. it keeps on asking me whether to allow a program called svchost.exe to access the internet. My questio...

Summary: hello, i recently ran AVG 6.0 and it found the following: AGOBOT.17.BV in my SVCHOST.exe process i placed it in the AVG Virus Vault, which is supposed...

Summary: Recently this computer has been acting a little odd. Not quite anything wrong with it, just a little jittery with certain apps. Whenever I noticed thi...