January 3rd, 2004, 10:00 PM
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Re: OT: What Is?
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Originally posted by BBegemott:
Various viruses like to infect svchost.exe. If you see a lot of those proceses and notice significant decrese of your PC performance, you might have got a worm. I recently had one named W32.HLLW.Gfaobot.DK. It exploits some windows vulnerabilities while spreading in LAN and sends lots of spam, which causes internet connection to lag.
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Usually they don't "infect" svchost.
They make a new executable somewhere else and starts that.
See the second link in my previous post. |
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