How to know what runs after svchost.exe Infected or not?

What is svchost.exe? Without going into confusing technical details, we will simply say that it is a Windows file located in the system folder “C: WindowsSystem32”, Which runs as a process, svchost.exe and its function is load all system services Windows operating, which are based on dynamic libraries; known as DLLs.

You can see it in the Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del), it will appear many times because it loads network services, multimedia and other applications. The problem is that many Trojans and spyware (Spyware) take advantage of it to infect your computer. Even some viruses use a similar name, such as scvhost.exe, to camouflage themselves and not be identified.

For find out if the svchost.exe process has a virus, we will use the free tool Svchost Process AnalyzerAll you have to do is run it so that it immediately analyzes them and returns a list of everything that is running, informing you if there are any suspicious processes.

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By clicking on each process in the list, you will have the description in Spanish that will tell you precisely what that process does. Be careful, it will be necessary to have knowledge to interpret the information and then take action.

With this post I emphasize that users must always be aware of what is running on their computers, controlling processes and their memory consumption.

Svchost Process Analyzer no installation required, it is 527 KB freeware, compatible with Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2003, 2000 (32/64 Bit).

Official site: Svchost Process Analyzer
Download Svchost Process Analyzer


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  1.   Erick said

    Thanks for the info……

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  3.   Phytoschido said

    Excellent advice, as always, Marcelo. Thanks!

  4.   Marcelo camacho said

    A pleasure Erick 😉
    By the way, thanks to you for such good freeware that you develop 😎

    Greetings.

  5.   Marcelo camacho said

    Thank you Phytoschido, I am glad to know that this post has been useful 😎

    Regards my friend!

  6.   Marcelo camacho said

    To you Freddy for the comment, that's what we're for 🙂

  7.   Freddy said

    Thanks for the information, it will be very useful in my work!