Playing games is what I like to do on my system. It has never been connected to the internet until recently to play games online. After I did that I noticed svchost.exe and system was taking 100% of my cpu. What is going on? What can I do to get rid of this so everything can run a lot smoother?

you may want to check if you have the blaster virus.

Rick

There is a similar post called the same thing search for it in the windows forum I think your post has been already answered(suggestion) Hit www.daniweb.com and look at the bottom of the HOTTEST threads list.(its one of my favorites)

If a person does not have the blaster worm, yet Svchost.exe is still giving you problems when you attempt to play any game, downloading the remover tool for blaster is not going to help one bit.

I myself am a gamer, it is what I do. I can't play sports because I royally screwed my knee earlier this summer and am still doing rehab.

There has got to be another reason as for why svchost.exe is hogging up all of the CPU and yet there are no viruses on a computer. It is happening to me, as well as alot of other people as far as I can see, and the problem is not limited to blasterworm. There has got to be another solution to another problem. And I am not about to end system processes that force my computer to restart in T-MINUS 60 seconds, because as it already is, my PC is not the most stable one in the world; sometimes even my HD talks to me. <<<< disk error.

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I have the same problem on a comp. and ,y virus scan doesn't work properly. To make a long story short i found a way to scan and found a worm but when i downloaded the patch for that it it said i wasn't infected. so i did searching on the svchost.exe process that showed up 4 times. it was takeing all remaining processor cycles. I found it is a process of the worm agobot.s


Hope this helps,
The Xidarian

on the command line run the command 'tasklist /svc'
this will break down for you what each process is being used for.

finally a like to say that some of you have the welchia worm and some of you have a blast worm... so look at symantecs to get the needed remove-tool

I don't think so.I think it's the agobot -s worm.I ran my removal tools for nachi,welchia and blaster but it's diff.u should also give agobot a try because I can't remember which one of them actually sends data packets to ur isp.

Get the patch for the blaster worm it works for me. Then update your systems after, that so that you can minimize your headache for Windows 2K/XP.