twistedinvegas said:
My computer chokes up. so I check out the task manager, and every time it's
this svchost.exec taking 98% of my cpu power. I end that process
everything goes back to normal for a while. Plus, there are about 7 of these
thing runing. If i shut down the wrong one, it will shut off my system.
What is it, and can I get rid of it?
If what you wrote is true and not typing error then you are infected with
Worm called W32/Plesa-A
A description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP Professional Edition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056/en-us
Go through these cleaning steps:
1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .
Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit .
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Scan for malware from here:
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm
Run disk clean up and Defrag in safe mode.
HTH.
nass
