Re: Effective Solution to Remove Virus in SVCHOST.EXE

From: Bruce Chambers (bruce_a_chambers_at_h0tmail.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:47:49 -0700

    I'm still not seeing anything that even so much as hints at the
presence of a virus. Exactly what specific problems are you
encountering, beyond those you've self-inflicted by stopping an
essential Windows process? 

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"Taylor" <friend909@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:dd8f4237.0411141840.6d4f9b11@posting.google.com...
>I have mentioned in my first posting that, it is easy to assume that
> there is computer virus hiding behind svchost.exe when you try to 
> "end
> process" on this file, there will be a 60-sec pc shutdown window pop
> out... also, if I go online for more than 15-30 mins, there will be 
> an
> error message from win-xp, saying something about svchost.exe and
> registry error (sorry, didn't manage to copy down the error).
>
> In fact, I am not the only one who has this problem, when I search
> online, many computer users post similar problems on those
> computer-help forums, I have tried many of the "solutions" there,
> however, none of them spot the virus.  Also, as any complete virus
> scan of the pc system can take 2-3 hours, I have been wasting a lot 
> of
> time so far to try different software and scan the entire computer 
> and
> at the end : "Virus found = 0".
>
> I am now using a firewall from ZA, but the svchost virus is still
> sitting in my system comfortably, hope this is a temporary measure 
> to
> fight against the virus from attacking my system from the net...
>
> Any advice will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor
>
>

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