svchost nonetwork question.

Guest · Mar 30, 2013

Ever since I ser up my new pc I checked the usage of my svchost.exe's because of a nasty virus on my last machine. But my usage for svchost (no network) was around 63mb. But the last week its climbed up to ~76mb. When I boot into my windows 8 server it shows about the same too which makes me feel a little better. But on my girlfriends laptop and my friends pc. Theirs runs at around 15 to 20mb. So I ran a scan security essentials, maleware bytes and avast mbr for the rootkits and other nasty stuff and found nothing.
Is this normal? And is the increase normal. I dont know if there is software that could cause this but I have my pc locked down pretty good against viruses.

scout_03 · Mar 30, 2013

use this to see witch process made svchost go so high in usage http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Guest · Mar 30, 2013

I did use that before to see and I can see svchost(nonetwork) and process id using around 76mb but it is not showing each service usage . However, the only services running under that specific svchost are windows firewall, base filtering engine and one other that I cant remember. I can disable all but the base filtering engine and it still takes up 70mb so that is what is taking up most of the resources.

scout_03 · Mar 30, 2013

check if there is not a software on auto update the check the every time you plug on the internet that could be the hugger .

Guest · Mar 31, 2013

No there are no auto updates that are on and I usually keep it very minimal to what actually is allowed to start at boot.
But with all the scans I did do you think it could still be a virus? Sorry I am just very paranoid

scout_03 · Mar 31, 2013

try the avast virus scan on start up it will scan the disc before windows load and disable the security scan for this also use only 1 antivirus software at the time .

Guest · Mar 31, 2013

I ran the boot scan and nothing was detected

scout_03 · Apr 1, 2013

you could try this do a malware scan with malwarebytes the free one http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and disable on of the svchost one at the time to see if you find the offender .

Guest · Apr 1, 2013

I have had malwarebytes and did do a scan with nothing found and I did narrow it down to the Base filtering engine under Svchost.exe(Localservicenonetwork) which is a firewall related svchost.

scout_03 · Apr 1, 2013

what happens if you disable it temporary .

Guest · Apr 2, 2013

unfortunately you cannot stop the service because windows will not let you and it is a huge security gap if you do. So there is not much i can do to see what what happens if i do stop it. I basically wanna know if anyone on this forum has their svchost(localnonetwork) perticularly go to 75-80mb?

Guest · Apr 2, 2013

thread closed. it was Malwarebytes firewall that caused it to be high. As soon as i closed mbam, my svchost went from 76 to 20mb as soon as i closed mbam and real time protection was turned off. I opened mbam and it bumped back up. Thanks for your help also scout

scout_03 · Apr 3, 2013

that is special i put mine on full protection for system files and web site block and there is just a little change in the process work where did you activate the firewall in malwarebytes i use the pro and dont see this .

Guest · Apr 3, 2013

Well mbam has its own firewall built into its full protection. And when I do this on my windows 7 and 8 machines svchost both rise to 75-80mb when enabled and 12-20mb when disabled.

scout_03 · Apr 3, 2013

do you have any cpu usage when malwarebytes is on full protection mine read 0

Guest · Apr 3, 2013

Nah mine is at zero also.My 3770k idles at 1% with no spikes ever. Also I have avast running with mbam

scout_03 · Apr 4, 2013

there is must be something else that connect to the network when you use mbam since i have 4 gig of memory and without mbam it use 38 % and i put mbam on ful setting it goes up only at 41 % ,i would check everything that connect to the web .

Guest · Apr 4, 2013

There is a difference between your ram and mine though. I run 16gb and the os likes to allocate more resources than needed because at idle im only using 11% ram with mbam and avast running. Go to your resource monitor and view how much mbam along with svchost (no network) is using before and after turning on realtime protection and website blocking. Going from 38 to 41% is about a 120 mb difference and is really close to how much my ram goes up. For me about 60mb in svchost and mbam is sitting at 50mb.

scout_03 · Apr 5, 2013

my test where made with network on and i also was using what's running ,let see if someone else on the forum give anotehr point of view on this .

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