Hey everyone.
I was trying to install the BF2 demo, but it seems something was interfering with it. So I open Task Manager. Everything's more or less in line, except I have seven copies of svchost.exe running.
Four of them are system processes, two are network services and one is a local service. They're using anything from 250k to 9.6M of memory. None of them appears to be doing anything at the moment.
I searched my hard drives for svchost.exe and two files came up: one in C:\WINDOWS\system32, where it should be, and one in C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache, the name written in blue.
I'm pretty confident it's not malware, unless a process can appear in Task Manager by a different name than its filename on disk.
I know the program is used by the system to run tasks executed by DLLs, so my best theory is that for every DLL that gets run, a new copy of svchost has to be opened.
Theories aside, however, I'd love to know exactly what's going on. Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!
I was trying to install the BF2 demo, but it seems something was interfering with it. So I open Task Manager. Everything's more or less in line, except I have seven copies of svchost.exe running.
Four of them are system processes, two are network services and one is a local service. They're using anything from 250k to 9.6M of memory. None of them appears to be doing anything at the moment.
I searched my hard drives for svchost.exe and two files came up: one in C:\WINDOWS\system32, where it should be, and one in C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache, the name written in blue.
I'm pretty confident it's not malware, unless a process can appear in Task Manager by a different name than its filename on disk.
I know the program is used by the system to run tasks executed by DLLs, so my best theory is that for every DLL that gets run, a new copy of svchost has to be opened.
Theories aside, however, I'd love to know exactly what's going on. Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!