Escaped Worm but still SVCHOST shenagins

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Matt

[SVCHOST.exe process in capital letters]

I managed to avoid the blaster worm, but have been
noticing strange behaviour lately on my win2KPro machine.

After startup, in the task manager / processes list are a
number of 'svchost.exe' processes, as normal (u can't end
task them) but always a single 'SVCHOST.exe' (ie in CAPS
when the others are not) and this one CAN be ENDED, which
i have been tending to do lately.

If i leave it running, i seem to get strange access to the
internet on my 52K (unusual or unwarranted activity,
system lags) - it seems to not happen if i kill this
process.

I really don't know if something scary is going on - its
messing with my head. Any advice would be greatly
appreciated.

Duration: over a week
Updates and Patches: applied since shenagins began
 
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