svchost.exe

chuck990 · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:01

I was just using task manager to close a file and happened to look in the processes tab, the top two memory using processes are both svcost.exe as are the fourth, twelfth, sixteenth, and seventeenth with more further down the list, is it supposed to appear more than 5 times in the top 20? also considering only kaspersky, msn and internet explorer are running, (and I’m not doing anything on msn and kaspersky is not updating or running a scan) should the pc really be using 1499 mb of ram? I’ve got 4 Gb and 64-bit so I’ve got plenty spare but it seems a little wierd.

any advise would be greatly appreciated!! thanks guys!

Macky · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:03

Google it. It is the main process for Windows Vista. I doubt there is anything wrong happening there mate.

Beerbaron · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:04

its fine, i have it running several times as well (using 64bit vista)

Macky · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:08

Eight times here chuck990. It's just Vista.

chuck990 · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:09

koolio thanks for the super quick responses

mame · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:14

hang on, there was a malware file that looked like this. I think it was scvhost.exe and svchost.exe. Something along those lines anyway. One was genuine, one was malware.

Macky · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:16

^ Just to confuse things for everybody.

If you're worried, download Malwarebytes'. Probably the best and smallest antimalware app.

chuck990 · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:30

ive got malwarebytes and kaspersky and will run both to make sure! thanks again!!!!

Destination · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:48

Don't set MWB to background scanning, or whatever its guardian mode is, simply use it as a run on demand. Same with superantispyware, Kaspersky can be picky about other things running in the background, but for ondemand scanning, they are quite fine.