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Posted by B-Man on January 17, 2007, 3:39 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options yes it is very common for the NT AUTHORITY account on your computer to
attempt to shutdown your computer when trying to end the svchost proccess
your computer may have a memory leak problem in that case im not too sure
what to do i had the same thing happen to my computer a few years back but
cant remember what i did to fix it
sorry,
Brian M
> ty for the reply.process explorer shows all svchost.exe coming from system
> folder.
>
> is it normal to have the nt authority message shut down the pc when
> attempting
>
> to close an svchost application, and is this the forum for memory
> problems?
>
> "David H. Lipman" wrote:
>
>>
>> | hello,having memory problems with windows xp 512.after 20 minutes or
>> | so,computer stops responding so I tried to stop one of the 6
>> svchost.exe
>> | applications running and ran into the old nt authority shutdown
>> | message.several scans showed no virus. am i infected? thanx
>>
>> It is NOT the number of SVCHOST.EXE processes that are running to
>> determine if its malware
>> but WHERE they are executed from.
>>
>> If they are executed from the %windir%\system32 folder then they are
>> legitimate. If the
>> are running from any other location they they are most likely malware.
>>
>> Process Explorer can be used to determine what is running and the fully
>> qualified path of
>> where they were launced...
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx
>>
>> --
>> Dave
>> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
>> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>>
>>
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