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svchost.exe eating up my bancdwith!
Running Win2K pro and finding out the the svchost.exe process is eating up my precious bandwidth - it's using about 9KBps (upstream) and that pretty much kills my DSL connection.
I can't kill the proces using task manager - but when I kill it use SysInternals "Process Explorer" (he he) the bandwidth munching stops... but it takes down some services which seem to be important...
Is this a known problem? What can I do?
I can't kill the proces using task manager - but when I kill it use SysInternals "Process Explorer" (he he) the bandwidth munching stops... but it takes down some services which seem to be important...
Is this a known problem? What can I do?
jkr
Try to find out what it connects to first - a good tool for that purpose is http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/tcpview.shtml
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ALso :
From: kkelln Date: 06/12/2001 08:06AM PST
The problem was related to some services I had on. I uninstalled the service pack, turned off all possible services and then reinstalled it. Worked slick. Just for testing purposes, I uninstalled it, turned on all services, and then reinstalled it - same problem as before.
So, one or more of the services I had running was causing the service patch to improperly install.
I hope this helps !
From: kkelln Date: 06/12/2001 08:06AM PST
The problem was related to some services I had on. I uninstalled the service pack, turned off all possible services and then reinstalled it. Worked slick. Just for testing purposes, I uninstalled it, turned on all services, and then reinstalled it - same problem as before.
So, one or more of the services I had running was causing the service patch to improperly install.
I hope this helps !
>>It sounds like you have been hacked, or a virus.
That's why I thought it'd be a good idea to find out what or who svchost.exe is 'talking' to.
That's why I thought it'd be a good idea to find out what or who svchost.exe is 'talking' to.
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Of course, you're right.
Immediatly after posting I d/led an AntiVirus...
Anyway, the damn thing ate up almost 30 GB of space! How the hell didn't I notice that??
Anyway, thanks all for your help. Sorry about the stupid question.
Immediatly after posting I d/led an AntiVirus...
Anyway, the damn thing ate up almost 30 GB of space! How the hell didn't I notice that??
Anyway, thanks all for your help. Sorry about the stupid question.