svchost issues

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Some viruses/malware and other malicious software use the well knows
svchost.exe to cover up their tracks. THIS COULD BE A VIRUS!

Be sure to follow the steps given on the following Microsoft page to try and
rectify your issue:

Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

"gwmon" wrote:

>
> Since I upgraded to XP service pack 2 I have started to receive an
> application error popup at the time of starting up my laptop.
>
> The popup does not come every time I start up my computer but when it comes
> it is at the stage of the Novell login screen(client version 4.90.0.0 SP1a).
>
> The pop up window looks like this:
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Svchost.exe - Application error
>
> The instruction at "0x02f513fc" referenced memory at "0x00000000".
> The memory could not be written.
>
> Click OK to terminate the program
> Click CANCEL to debug the program
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
> I normally click on OK and continue, sometimes I restart and the pop up
> doesn’t appear again.
>
> It happened again when I restarted after lunch and when I clicked cancel for
> debugging there was no debugging happening that I can see. To make it clear,
> even though I get this application error message everything seem to work
> after I click on OK, to terminate the program (I don’t know what program is
> terminated though). Any ideas? How do i rectify this?