kuoch Posted January 23, 2012 Report Posted January 23, 2012 I'm having a svchost taking up so much of my memory usage and it's slowing me the fuck down. Once I shut it down with task manager, it shuts my sound driver down and a bunch of other shit. I tried scanning my pc with Malwarebytes/S&D Bot, but they have no luck in getting it out, or finding it. Any idea anyone? Help appreciated if you could.
Alraune Posted January 23, 2012 Report Posted January 23, 2012 Try this? http://www.technibble.com/how-to-fix-svchost-using-100-cpu-memory-leak/
kuoch Posted January 23, 2012 Author Report Posted January 23, 2012 Tried that already, manage to happen all over again. 300k+ with svchost, Pft.
Alraune Posted January 23, 2012 Report Posted January 23, 2012 Right-click on the svchost process taking 300k+ and choose Go to Services, this will give you a list of highlighted services running under the process. Try disabling these individually until you find what's using so much memory.
kuoch Posted January 23, 2012 Author Report Posted January 23, 2012 I am on window xp. Right clicking it from task manger doesn't show any services. At least for me it doesn't. What's another way of getting to services.
Alraune Posted January 23, 2012 Report Posted January 23, 2012 (edited) You could download this to see the services running under svchost. Double click on the process then click the Services tab and try it. Edited January 23, 2012 by Alraune
Decode Posted January 24, 2012 Report Posted January 24, 2012 First of all you have to know what is svchost.exe. svchost is the service that takes care and control the services that work from dlls or (dynamic-link libraries). svchost starts up with windows and with it loads all the services it needs from the windows registry. Sometimes if your registry isn't well organized it could make the svchost drain your pc resources looking for the right files, to clean your registry and arranging it I recommend "Registry Booster" or "Ccleaner" and see if it solves your problem. Keep in mind that there are some viruses that take advantage of this name that could be of trouble and drain your resources. Some of those viruses are: scvhost.exe: It is installed by the W32/Agobot-S virus. It is a backdoor IRC troyan, it copies itself by taking advantage of the shared resources with a weak password. svchosts.exe: It is installed by the Sdbot-N virus. It is a backdoor troyan that lets a remote user control our PC by IRC. svshost.exe: It is installed by the Worm.P2P.Spybot.gen virus. 1
Meka Meka Posted January 24, 2012 Report Posted January 24, 2012 (edited) +1 for CCleaner. Have used it for years. Could help clean your registry. Generally speaking, if your system's compromised, best bet is to just start fresh if you can and reformat. For some good free AV try Microsoft Security Essentials. I also like Avira. Edited January 24, 2012 by Meka Meka
kuoch Posted January 24, 2012 Author Report Posted January 24, 2012 I've tried using all those already, didn't really change much. So yeah, I'm just going to result to just wiping it. Sigh, what a waste. Oh well, thanks for all the tips and what not.
Decode Posted January 24, 2012 Report Posted January 24, 2012 I'm sorry you had to go with that choice. :s
Ryuk Posted January 24, 2012 Report Posted January 24, 2012 (edited) It is possible that this is not caused by a virus. I'd recommend you to disable auto-updating from windows. One of svchost's highest cpu drainers is arranging the automatic updates from windows. If you disable those you should have less instances of svchost and (unless you have the virus one) it will no longer take up 99% of your cpu. Edit : Do make sure you manually update once in a while if you disable this feature. Edited January 24, 2012 by Ryuk
Perishable Posted January 24, 2012 Report Posted January 24, 2012 Hey, Kuoch. That's my problem. I have no idea how to get rid of it either.
Decode Posted January 24, 2012 Report Posted January 24, 2012 Try to follow Ryuk's suggestion, I did it myself on my sister's laptop "of course I was not going to use my own laptop what if it exploded?!!" but anyway some of the svchost.exe fade away.
Perishable Posted January 24, 2012 Report Posted January 24, 2012 How do you disabled auto-update? Go to computer, right click, and property? I'm on Window Vista
Decode Posted January 24, 2012 Report Posted January 24, 2012 (edited) To turn automatic updates on/off using vista do as following. 1. Click on start button. 2. Select all programs. 3. Click on windows update. 4. In the left panel click "Change settings" 5. Chose the option that you want. In the step 5 you will see the following options: 1. Install updates automatically 2. Install new updates, and a box where you say when you want the updates to be downloaded and installed. 3. Download updates but let me choose whether to install them. 4. Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them. 5. Never check for updates. If you want to turn updates off so it doesn't goes online and check for new ones or prompt you anything about updates, just choose option 5. Edited January 24, 2012 by Decode
kuoch Posted January 25, 2012 Author Report Posted January 25, 2012 Pretty much did turn it off, and it still happens. When I run RO this things goes up to 900k. Ridiculous. I really can't figure this thing out. I can't even use my PC for gaming anymore because of this. So, I'm stuck with just browsing the net. |:
Halion Posted January 25, 2012 Report Posted January 25, 2012 gamebooster v3 and above, it worked for me and might work for you just look at youtube tutorials, really useful
