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SVCHost services stops working

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  • Windows Vista
  • Internet
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January 9, 2014 6:07:27 PM

Intermittently I get a message the svchost services has stopped, and I lose the Internet, wait a few seconds and the message disappears, and the internet returns. Could this be a virus or what?

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January 9, 2014 6:34:15 PM

Could be a virus indeed (some of them have their .exe name as "svchost"), so go ahead and scan your system.

If there's no virus detected, check the system logs from event viewer to find out which services are getting stopped, we'll follow from there.
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January 10, 2014 6:43:00 AM

RaDiKaL_ said:
Could be a virus indeed (some of them have their .exe name as "svchost"), so go ahead and scan your system.

If there's no virus detected, check the system logs from event viewer to find out which services are getting stopped, we'll follow from there.


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January 10, 2014 6:50:53 AM

RaDiKaL_ said:
Could be a virus indeed (some of them have their .exe name as "svchost"), so go ahead and scan your system.

If there's no virus detected, check the system logs from event viewer to find out which services are getting stopped, we'll follow from there.


I have scanned the system with AVAST, Malwarebytes, rootkit, and things are found, but problem still exists. The service which is getting stopped is that the computer goes offline for some seconds, when the SVCHost message goes away, the internet connectivity comes back !


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January 10, 2014 7:16:00 AM

go to control panel->System and Security->Administrative Tools->Event viewer->Windows Logs->System

Once there, look for any event around the time the problem happened, it will most likely be marked with a warning (yellow icon) or an error (red icon) flag, read the event and see what's the exact name of the service causing the issue, with that info we should be able to fix the problem.
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January 23, 2014 4:32:13 PM

RaDiKaL_ said:
go to control panel->System and Security->Administrative Tools->Event viewer->Windows Logs->System

Once there, look for any event around the time the problem happened, it will most likely be marked with a warning (yellow icon) or an error (red icon) flag, read the event and see what's the exact name of the service causing the issue, with that info we should be able to fix the problem.

I had a time getting to the machine, but I finally got some information
Service Control Manager event log provider shows these numbers repetitively, 7032,7031,7034, and MSI Installer 10005

SVchost.exe_seclogon
6.0.6001.18000
47918b89
ntdll.dll
6.0.6002.18881
51da3e29
80000003
0004878e
7e8
01cf186ff33ee32b

Another message reads -- Service Control Manager tried to take corrective action(Restart the services) after the unexpected termination of the BITS service, but this action failed. An instance of the service is already running.
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January 23, 2014 7:47:09 PM

BITS is the service invoked by windows updates to download updates whenever it detects your connection is not being used, if this service isn't working properly it might try to download while you're using your connection, with a load in a supposed "idle state" the service might try to restart your network services (I'm assuming it takes that step thus taking connection down).

So... you could try to disable the BITS and windows updates services and see if the problem goes away, if so, the files of these services might be corrupt, try running the following command from an elevated cmd:

sfc /scannow

If that detects some issues but isn't able to repair, try using a Windows Vista Repair disc.
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