my webroot says that I have a small sychost leak. Can someone tell me a little more about it an whether it is a problem for me?
Hi ferrara18
Welcome to the Community Forums.
Svchost.exe is a legitimate Windows process that loads several other critical services for use in Windows operation. And there are many cases where Svchost.exe has been reported as 'hogging' CPU or Memory resources for no apparent reason. I myself have experienced this recently on a laptop that I was working on.
On some occassions the Svchost.exe high usage problems can occur on computers that are infected by a virus or a malware program, but if you have run a scan with WSAnand that has come up clean then most likely you are OK...but if in doubt you can Open a Support Ticket and ask the Support Team to investigate for you.
Having said that in many other cases the Svchost.exe high CPU or Memory leak problems, are caused by more mundane things such as an issue with Windows Update (that was the izsue with the laptop I mentioned before), or by other programs or services that start many processes during their execution.
The only real way of dealing with this is to troubleshoot the issue, i.e., investigate, via the Task Manager as to which Svchost {and you will see a number of apparent duplicates...but they all run a different set of processes) is the source of the issue.
As I said recently my issues was traced to being Windows Update related...the symptom being that Windows Updates never seemed to complete downloading...so as a long shot check to see if yours are running normally and if not then that may be the issue. If that is the case then please take a look at this previous thread (especially post #11) as that may help.
Hope that helps in some way?
Regards, Baldrick
Welcome to the Community Forums.
Svchost.exe is a legitimate Windows process that loads several other critical services for use in Windows operation. And there are many cases where Svchost.exe has been reported as 'hogging' CPU or Memory resources for no apparent reason. I myself have experienced this recently on a laptop that I was working on.
On some occassions the Svchost.exe high usage problems can occur on computers that are infected by a virus or a malware program, but if you have run a scan with WSAnand that has come up clean then most likely you are OK...but if in doubt you can Open a Support Ticket and ask the Support Team to investigate for you.
Having said that in many other cases the Svchost.exe high CPU or Memory leak problems, are caused by more mundane things such as an issue with Windows Update (that was the izsue with the laptop I mentioned before), or by other programs or services that start many processes during their execution.
The only real way of dealing with this is to troubleshoot the issue, i.e., investigate, via the Task Manager as to which Svchost {and you will see a number of apparent duplicates...but they all run a different set of processes) is the source of the issue.
As I said recently my issues was traced to being Windows Update related...the symptom being that Windows Updates never seemed to complete downloading...so as a long shot check to see if yours are running normally and if not then that may be the issue. If that is the case then please take a look at this previous thread (especially post #11) as that may help.
Hope that helps in some way?
Regards, Baldrick
Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete Beta Tester v9.0.24.49, imaged by Macrium Reflect v7.2
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