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Mowey Ninja

SVCHOST is staying anywhere from 80-100. This is kind of a big problem. I realize this is usually due to spyware. I have tried almost every program I can think of. I've used Ad-aware, spybot, super antispywear, Windows Advanced Care, CCleaner, hijackthis (which I will attach the log for it), and am now running Panda Activescan to see if that sees anything. I have also ran all of those in Safemode. I can't reinstall, because I do not have a reinstallation disk to use. Panda Activescan can find 4 spyware things, nothing else suspects it.

Thanks,
Mowey

This is also a double post, would please remove the one from Virus/Spyware. I thought this would receive more attention here.

dahli

Hello,

What you can do here now is, go to Windows Update and download and install all updates.
Then reboot.
Then reenable Windows update and look if the cpu goes up again caused by svchost.exe or if it gives an error again.

If so, there are two ways to fix this... Or leave Automatic updates disabled (you will still be able to download and install the updates from the Windows Update site),
or follow next instructions: (quoted from Microsoft forum here)

1. Click Start->Run, type "services.msc" (without quotation marks) in the
open box and click OK.
2. Double click the service "Automatic Updates".
3. Click on the Log On tab, please ensure the option "Local System account"
is selected and the option "Allow service to interact with desktop" is
unchecked.

4. Check if this service has been enabled on the listed Hardware Profile.
If not, please click the Enable button to enable it.
5. Click on the tab "General "; make sure the "Startup Type" is "Automatic".
Then please click the button "Start" under "Service Status" to start the service.
6. Repeat the above steps with the other service: Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)

Step 4: Re-register Windows Update components and Clear the corrupted Windows Update temp folder

1. Click on Start and then click Run,
2. In the open field type "REGSVR32 WUAPI.DLL" (without quotation marks) and
press Enter.
3. When you receive the "DllRegisterServer in WUAPI.DLL succeeded" message,
click OK.
4. Please repeat these steps for each of the following commands:

REGSVR32 WUAUENG.DLL
REGSVR32 WUAUENG1.DLL
REGSVR32 ATL.DLL
REGSVR32 WUCLTUI.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS2.DLL
REGSVR32 WUWEB.DLL

After the above steps are finished. Since temporary folder of Windows Update may be corrupted. We can refer to the following steps to rename this folder
that

1. Click Start, Run, type: cmd and press Enter. Please run the following command in the opened window.

net stop WuAuServ
(note, you might need to reboot before the net stop command will work)

2. Click Start, Run, type: %windir% and press Enter.
3. In the opened folder, rename the folder SoftwareDistribution to SDold.
4. Click Start, Run, type: cmd and press Enter. Please run the following command in the opened window.

net start WuAuServ

Although, if above doesn't work, you may want to apply this Hotfix Microsoft provided in the beginning of February since many people were having this issue.

From the Microsoft site:

"When you use Automatic Updates to scan for updates or to apply updates to applications that use Windows Installer, you experience issues that involve the Svchost.exe process":

When you use Automatic Updates to scan for updates or to apply updates to applications that use Windows Installer, you experience issues that involve the Svchost.exe process

Please post the results. Thanks.

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