Thanks guys. All the spellings appear to be normal and nothing untoward seems to be listed in the tasklist/svc details.

Thanks for putting my mind at rest! ;)

Does anybody use Uniblue's registry cleaning tools at all?

I ran a registry scan using their trial version as I have a number of scvhost.exe apps running in my processes tab of the Task Manager...

That's absolutely brilliant - thanks so much!

This board is fantastic Michael, I really appreciate your help. :cool:

Hi guys,

I'm new here and I've had a read through some of the topics and found people with similar problems to those I am having. I have downloaded the latest HijackThis and the log is as follows:...