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  • 12-04-2004 9:12pm
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    brandnewspoon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    recently this windows program started crashing whenever i connect to the net. does anyone know what virus (im presuming i have one) is causing it? i dont think its blaster cause that usually just hangs your computer or reboots it. any help? im running 2000.


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    svchost is not exactly the program crashing. It is a generic "wrapper" program to run someother device or program as a "service", i.e. a background program.

    You need to supply more information. Simply a bad phone line could cause what you see.

    Nowadays misconfiguration rather than a virus/worm/trojan (they tend to be "silent") is main reason for a process failing.


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    Martyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Martyr


    It could be a buggy piece of server software too..
    Maybe every so often the code tries to determine whether or not
    the system it is running on is connected to the internet,
    and if true, attempts to run a routine resulting in the crash you see.
    Just a paranoid possibility. :)


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    Jaden
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Jaden


    Blaster - You have it. Google for patch.


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