Sunday, November 19, 2006

"SVCHOST" when in reality it is SVOHOST

Since V-TACK is supposed to honour or remind us about the computer virus that was annoying the school network system years ago (when i was still in school), i am going to write a review about a virus. Viruses are sooo annoying. Is almost impossible to remove them 100%. Last year my laptop was infected with a horrible trojan horse which was so annoying. I don't know if i have removed it 100% but apparently it is gone. I think I removed it with anti spyware programs such as ad-ware or spybot, which are freeware and they actually work.

But how did I get infected? i believe that it is by visiting websites which need to be supported by spyware+trojan horses because they are so poor.

Okay, forget about this trojan horse because I got infected with another trojan horse recently. This trojan disguises itself as SVCHOST (trojan viruses "disguises" like the trojan horse from Troy so that the user believes that is not a bad thing). SVCHOST in reality is "is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) within modern versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system". That is not a bad thing. The bad thing is what is inside the fake SVCHOST which is a trojan names SVOHOST (a letter has changed!).
This trojan can do mean things to your PC. It uses about 100% of your CPU which slows down most of the applications. The least you can do is prevent SVOHOST from starting when Windows starts. To do this, you must run msconfig and look for "SVOHOST" and uncheck it so that it does not start. After doing this and restarting your PC, you will feel that the computer works faster and the CPU is not being used up to 100%. However, the trojan is still there.

I will post more to this review when I figure out how to remove it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ay no que estress que se te entre virus. Jajaja cholerada. No te metas a sites con trojan horse
-karen

Anonymous said...

hahaha el virus de la fifa iker el virus de la fifa...ese afecta mas

Jessica said...

becks, anda a la mls al galaxy de los angeles para poder volver a ser un galactico.