As of two days ago, svchost.exe keeps trying to access the Internet (ZoneAlarm pop up) and each time it seems to try and connect to a different IP. I've been denying access but I've noticed that I have five svchost.exe's in my processes (Task manager). Each of them are also using a different amount of memory.

svchost.exe 16,224 K
svchost.exe 4,956 K
svchost.exe 8,768 K
svchost.exe 4,512 K
svchost.exe 6,116 K

That's the order they come up in.

I don't know for how long there have been five svchosts running but the ZA popups started coming up two days ago after I visited a torrent site. After I went to the page and went to download the torrent file, the page froze and I got a two ZA pop ups, one of them was svchost.exe. I allowed both of them access (But only once) and I also opened the page in IE (I use firefox for everything unless some pages don't work). After I exited the page I got xpantivirus malware and two trojan horses. I scanned with SUPER AntiSpyware and AVG (Free editions) and got rid of the infections.

I don't think I've ever had more than one svchost.exe running, and that was the one using 16,224 K of memory. I know what svchost.exe is and I'm sure it's not svhost.exe (A virus I believe). I'm also running Windows 2000.

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