Scvhost - essential or worm?

Scvhost - essential or worm?

Postby VINTAR on 07 Aug 2009 08:10

As the title says. I've seen so many conflicting stories about this process. Anyone know the truth?
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Re: Scvhost - essential or worm?

Postby busetibi on 10 Aug 2009 14:29

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Re: Scvhost - essential or worm?

Postby VINTAR on 11 Aug 2009 06:21

Yeah those are the conflicting stories i've seen. So who's right?
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Re: Scvhost - essential or worm?

Postby busetibi on 11 Aug 2009 09:36

VINTAR wrote:Yeah those are the conflicting stories i've seen. So who's right?


huh?
they're different exe's.

svchost is good
scvhost is a worm/trojan
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Re: Scvhost - essential or worm?

Postby VINTAR on 11 Aug 2009 10:15

Apologies. I didnt see the subtle spelling difference :-) oh and apologies for the heavy beating on the field...no wait...what? I'm not sorry for that :-P
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Re: Scvhost - essential or worm?

Postby busetibi on 11 Aug 2009 12:21

VINTAR wrote:Apologies. I didnt see the subtle spelling difference :-) oh and apologies for the heavy beating on the field...no wait...what? I'm not sorry for that :-P


yea they're very crafty that way, if you look in task manager you prob wouldn't pick it up unless you really looked for it, bastards!
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