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<blockquote data-quote="drakhe" data-source="post: 1778811" data-attributes="member: 4930">Is it SVCHOST that is eating your PC... not SCVHOSTAre you shure it was SVCHOST and not SCVHOST? (mark the vc cv difference)&nbsp;Some time ago I discovered the same kind of symptoms and noticed that there was a couple of SVCHOSTS and one SCVHOST process running (you hardly notice it until you sort the processess on name) Googling for SCVHOST, I found that the latter was indeed a mallicious program. Don't know exactly what I had to do, but I do remember I had to delete a number of files that had 1 letter different from genuine XP processess and had to do some editing in the registry. (notably removing a bunch of entries in the different &quot;run&quot; sections.&nbsp;So I would say, make double sure what program is causing your problem and if it is SCVHOST, have a google for it and you'l find plenty of hits with removal instructions.&nbsp;Sorry I can't be more of a help, but I thought the hint might be usefull.&nbsp;I did get rid of this pest, put took me some effort, initialy I probably missed some files or registry entries and it just kept on coming back. As I understood from some of the pages, has something to do with the system restore function. Most of the pages have you shut down system restore before doing the cleaning.&nbsp;Do run a good firewall and anti virus program. I've had 2 friends get virusses and worms in the span of a couple of minutes after conecting to the net. (&quot;I'll install the firewall and stuf later, I just want to see if my internet is working.... did they get a wake up call!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drakhe, post: 1778811, member: 4930"] [b]Is it SVCHOST that is eating your PC... not SCVHOST[/b] Are you shure it was SVCHOST and not SCVHOST? (mark the vc cv difference) Some time ago I discovered the same kind of symptoms and noticed that there was a couple of SVCHOSTS and one SCVHOST process running (you hardly notice it until you sort the processess on name) Googling for SCVHOST, I found that the latter was indeed a mallicious program. Don't know exactly what I had to do, but I do remember I had to delete a number of files that had 1 letter different from genuine XP processess and had to do some editing in the registry. (notably removing a bunch of entries in the different "run" sections. So I would say, make double sure what program is causing your problem and if it is SCVHOST, have a google for it and you'l find plenty of hits with removal instructions. Sorry I can't be more of a help, but I thought the hint might be usefull. I did get rid of this pest, put took me some effort, initialy I probably missed some files or registry entries and it just kept on coming back. As I understood from some of the pages, has something to do with the system restore function. Most of the pages have you shut down system restore before doing the cleaning. Do run a good firewall and anti virus program. I've had 2 friends get virusses and worms in the span of a couple of minutes after conecting to the net. ("I'll install the firewall and stuf later, I just want to see if my internet is working.... did they get a wake up call!) [/QUOTE]

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