Svchost.exe @ 100% CPU Usage (Help!)

Hello,

Recently i have been doing my normal things and all of a sudden today after work i booted up comp, and it was really laggy and didnt let me use my taskbar (due to frozen) and i checked my tasks and SVCHost.exe is running at 100%.

I have ran Adaware, AVG, SpyFerret, Pest Patrol, The Cleaner, Housecall, HiJack This. I have done these steps i talk about before and after i have done in Safemode Only.

I have also done a number of things in the computer settings like checking out whats starting with windows etc...

Running Processes From HiJacThis Log:
C:\windows\System32\smss.exe
C:\windows\System32\winlogon.exe
C:\windows\System32\services.exe
C:\windows\System32\lsass.exe
C:\windows\System32\svchost.exe
C:\windows\System32\svchost.exe
C:\windows\System32\spoolsv.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc
C:\windows\System32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\windows\System32\slserv.exe
C:\windows\Explorer.EXE
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Chris Lenga\Start Menu\System Utilities\HijackThis.exe

I would put the whole log but its way too much to type and i looked it over real well and nothing looks bad in the rest of the log...

I will remind you that currently my burner on my other comp is not working for some reason, nor is my floppy or internet connection so i had to print it out.

As i looked through the hijackthis log everything pretty much was down to earth simple to read and i knew what it all was.

Standard system specs are....

AMD Athlon 3200+
512 Ram
Cable Connection to the Internet
Windows XP Home Edition
Service Pack One (SP1)

Any help would be much appreciated as i am using the computer at work to do this since mine as i said does not have internet connection

Quick note...

I am very strict on adware and viruses etc... Mainly overall PC performance i keep at an all time HIGH.

I run scans quite a bit throughout the week to keep the comp running as smooth as posible

Luckyice, that was spam. It was no use to the topic at all.

However, I think I can help. Try restarting.

If that doesn't work, try booting up without any internet access. If you have a PCI ethernet card, disconnect that. Usually svchost has something to do with those.

I'll try that, thanks

and i dont think it was spam because it wouldnt let me edit for some reason.

Just a similar update...

I have been further going through trying to fix it on my own and now i have more than 4 Svchost.exe files running with one still running 99% - 100%

I need to try to get internet on the computer to do anything further and i dont know whats wrong with it, used to work fine and now the internet doesent work at all.

Anyone got any ideaS?

Mate, sounds like you have the symptoms of the Blaster virus. Are you able to update that definitions list and perform a full virus scan on your machine?

Thread moved.

I cannot do anything to my comp that has to do with internet at all. Right now i cant even use internet explorer on the comp due to it not doing anything...

I dont know what to do...

Should i try to get the blaster remove tool things from norton on this comp and burn it to cd and open on that comp?
Do you think it would make a difference?

I Browsed and Tried Millions of pages with solutions. Finally I DISABLED the RIP LISTENER Service and Viola! All purring along nicely now with 98%-99% CPU sitting in Idle.

Hi LuckyIce,

Please post a fresh HijackThis log. Please include the entire log.

Tom

spoolsv.exe hogging 99% of cpu - the fix

Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services and stop the Print Spooler. Turn off the printer. Now go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS and delete the files there. I found '00020.SHD' and '00020.SPL'. Now turn your printer back on and restart the service. Check task manager, spoolsv.exe should be at 00%. Whew!

I have same probem.
where rip listener is located?

I had the same problem for the past week and I was going nuts.
this svc host file it's not a normal window file...it only appears so!
I could not even do windows updates...I would get error messages!
I tried again and again,and finally I did and it looks like this svchost malware is not there anymore.
I also used avg and it did not detect anything,then I used norton and it detected a virus....

nagual: please create a new thread rather than replying to an existing one. Otherwise problems get difficult to follow. I also suggest that you post a HijackThis log with the latest version of the program.

There is actually one very common thing that causes this problem, and it is easy to fix. I have no idea WHY, but when you turn on windows automatic updates, sometimes it just massively screws up. I do not know why or how, but if you go to automatic updates in control panel, and just turn them off entirely, the CPU usage problem goes away completely.