Also a strong indication we security folks look for when nasty stuff has infected the computer. Hijacking the svhost process makes it easy to hide what you’re doing.
Dan > On Apr 20, 2016, at 8:31 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Have you tried Googling on it? > IIRC Win7 and later had some way you could see exactly what was inside the > svhost wrapper and causing problems. > -Curt > > > From: Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 8:00 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] You may only speak of ... operating systems ... [was: Re: > New lister ] > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:44:16 +0000 Rick Knoble via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Craig sez: >> >>> Is there a way to keep it from >happening? >> >> Don't boot into Windows. :) >> >> Problem solved. >> >> You're welcome. > > Cute, but not what I was hoping to hear ... > > I would much rather keep in booted to Linux, but Citrix doesn't write > GoToMeeting software for Linux, nor does Garmin write a GPS update > program for its receivers. > > In addition, our local grocery chain requires a recent web browser so I > have to use SeaMonkey 2.39 on Windows. > > I tried updating our Linux to CentOS 7 to use a browser newer than > SeaMonkey 2.17, but could not get it to function like CentOS 5.12, so I > gave up in great frustration and swapped the CentOS 5 disk back in our > desktop (fortunately, I installed CentOS 7 on a new disk!). > > >> I have the same problem when I boot into Windows for the tax season. > > I recall XP having this problem of svchost.exe commandeering resources at > one point, but it went away somehow. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
