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svchost.exe error

I am so scared now.. :: a message just pops in on my computer that svchost.exe can't transfer 0xc97q437 [sorry, but something like that] to 0x97248 and I tried googling it and svchost.exe isn't a virus but can someone tell me what is it? and the worse, after click "ok" to terminate the program, another window box pops in with a countdown saying that rpc had an error and needs to shut down and it always shuts down :confused: ::

help..

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svchost.exe is not a virus, it is one of the processes that your comp runs. I do not know how to fix it though. When I turn it off, nothing happens, so I do not know what is it used for.

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i think thats one of the recent exploits found in windows 2k/xp
you'll need to patch that up

to stop your computer from shutting down
go to start ->run > type in "cmd"
then type

shutdown.exe -a

(if that doesn't get rid of the shut down thing, try typing it in the run field (where you typed cmd)

after you get rid of the shutdown box, go look for a patch...(can probably be done from Windows Update)

post back and tell if it worked.. it may or may not be that exploit thing that was going around about a month ago.

yeah, I've heard some stuff about virus's running as svchost.exe ... so you might want to update your AV and run a scan. if nothing shows up, you might want to try patching it up, and if still no go, its probally about time for a fresh install

to permanatly disable the shutdown feature when RPC fails, go to control panel, ->administrative tools (under performance and maintanance in xp) -> services.

find the service Remote Procedure Call (RPC), right click -> properties, select the recovery tab, and change the setting to stop it from shutting down, preferably select to restart the application, as it is important.

However you should try to get a window patch for that as quickly as possible, and try a blaster worm removal tool, if you AV cant find the virus.

Also: svchost, runs a load of services, but the only one that causes windows to shutdown is RPC, thats why you can terminate a couple of those procesess with nothing happening.

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Last edited by vierstein, October 29th, 2003 07:24 PM (Edited 1 times)

vierstein thankls alot i had that same problem as the first guy. thanks alot. tomorrow im gonna have to get a patch just to be safe. but thanks

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as for what svchost it does the follow:

Service Host ? Generic Host Process for Win32 Services. Windows 2000/XP only. SVCHOST is a generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs. At startup SVCHOST checks the Services portion of the Registry to construct a list of DLL-based services that it needs to load, and then loads them. There can be many instances of SVCHOST running, as there will be one instance of SVCHOST for every DLL-based service or grouping of services (the grouping of services is determined by the programmers who wrote the services in question).