Svchost.exe question

[darkunited]

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the svchost.exe windows file that runs in the background. Besides having 2 of them running at once, which i have read is normal, one of the svchost.exe files constantly runs at around 140,000-170,000k of memory. Even when my computer is just turned on or has been sitting with nothing running. Is this normal? I dont have any excess programs running besides my creative sound panel, logitech g series keyboard profiler, saitek x-52 profile manager, and logitech gamepanel manager. It's beyond me why svchost.exe would take up more memory than a lot of the programs I run. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

 

[wing2010]

Try the Process Explorer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

It will give you the details of what service(s) is(are) running by that particular svchost.exe.

HTH.

 

[darkunited]

i'll give it a try, thanks!

 

[darkunited]

does this look right?
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm201/darkunited87/openme.jpg

 

[darkunited]

woops i posted in XP forums when i have Vista lol

 

[darkunited]

Can someone look at that picture and tell me if it seems a little odd?

 

[Tamz_msc]

svchost.exe has several instances running at the same time but it should not use that much of memory.Post the services that are running under it.Right click on that>properties>Services Tab

 

[darkunited]

i found out that i had the prorat virus, thats the reason why it was running such high memory