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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1776078" data-attributes="member: 813">How are you going to read this if you don't turn your computer on?svchost.exe is a normal windows app used by COM objects to &quot;run&quot;. Unfortunately, that include malicious COM objects such a ActiveX controls that download innocuously with webpages. A normal copy of XP will have several such running svchost.exe instances to handle normal processees like .NET services.Assuming you have up to date virus software, you have probably caught some spyware. AdAware should take care of it. But you have to download it and run it.If you can just kill it from the task manager easily, it may (note: MAY) be all right to just boot up and run a virus scan/adaware check. If neither latest virus scan signatures nor latest Adaware can find this COM object, it will take more Windows-fu than I can impart in this post to help you get rid of it. (It involves poking around in the registry which can be dangerous.)If it is spyware that adaware takes out. Do yourself a favor and download mozilla since Internet Explorer is your primary culprit in receiving COM objects you don't want from the Internet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 1776078, member: 813"] How are you going to read this if you don't turn your computer on? svchost.exe is a normal windows app used by COM objects to "run". Unfortunately, that include malicious COM objects such a ActiveX controls that download innocuously with webpages. A normal copy of XP will have several such running svchost.exe instances to handle normal processees like .NET services. Assuming you have up to date virus software, you have probably caught some spyware. AdAware should take care of it. But you have to download it and run it. If you can just kill it from the task manager easily, it may (note: MAY) be all right to just boot up and run a virus scan/adaware check. If neither latest virus scan signatures nor latest Adaware can find this COM object, it will take more Windows-fu than I can impart in this post to help you get rid of it. (It involves poking around in the registry which can be dangerous.) If it is spyware that adaware takes out. Do yourself a favor and download mozilla since Internet Explorer is your primary culprit in receiving COM objects you don't want from the Internet. [/QUOTE]

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