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> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:56:11 +1200, Peter Huebner
> <> wrote:
>
> >
> >Every time I connect to the internet, svchost "network service" soaks up
> >98-99% of CPU for 15-30 seconds. After that, it goes back down to 0 and
> >the computer comes back to live (and so does the net).
> >
> >This is danged annoying, and I am wondering what might be causing it.
> >Does anybody have an idea for a possible fix?
> >
> >cheers -Peter
>
> It might be the symptom of a virus. It is not a virus itself.
No, not any virus or spyware or trojan or adware that are detectable
with most of the current tools.
Since this behaviour started after I installed SP2, I was fairly sure
that it's to do with that somehow. I recall there were tcp/ip changes
implemented that broke things for people. However, uninstalling SP2
didn't fix the issue.
I got a little further in the investigation. On an impulse I tried this
last night: I went to the taskman/process list and killed ->svchost
NETWORKING SERVICE. Then I connected, and the connection came alive
immediately.
No degradation in functionality. Hmmm.
I then went into the registry and tried to find out what exactly is
being loaded by svchost. Unfortunately, there is no separate entry under
/system/services/netsvcs in my registry.
However, I found in \windowsnt\currentversion\svchost there is at least
one service being loaded that is an **orphan** from SP2 (which I have
uninstalled) called dcomhost. I have also found services there called
pchealth and termsvcs which I cannot identify use or origin of.
I may try to delete these keys from the registry one by one and see if I
can catch the culprit thataway, unless somebody can come up with a
brainwave (I have to go out & work, this won't happen immediately).
-P.
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