Virus? or not to virus?

[PR.Rob.McLoughlin]

Recently, my Mcafee firewall has been turning on and off. My real time scanning is working properly, and I think I may have a virus.

Looking at my processes svchost.exe is running at "182,680 K" is that normal?
Other people i have spoken two have it running at "600 K" also, i have about eight of these processes :S.

Rob

[C0NNA]

What OS mate?

[Serbiak]

You should let a second anti virus program check your system. That way you get a higher chance to find it even if it has disabled mcafee.

[Carbonade]

My svhost.exe is also running at 185 912k, tell me if you figgure out what's causing this.

[whatshisname55]

Did you try manually disabling it then re-enabling it?
Does this happen every time you start up your computer? If so, did you try reinstalling Mcafee?

[PR.Rob.McLoughlin]

Did you try manually disabling it then re-enabling it?
Does this happen every time you start up your computer? If so, did you try reinstalling Mcafee?

Its literally happens the moment i turn it on, it goes "on" "off". I have tried reinstalling yes, i installed AVG to see if that would do any good, but it wouldn't let my PC start up. So i had to do a system restore.

[whatshisname55]

Download this and run a full scan: Spybot Search & Destroy.
It's pretty good at catching viruses some AV's miss. If this comes up with nothing we'll have to do some more brainstorming.

[Pedz]

My svhost.exe is also running at 185 912k, tell me if you figgure out what's causing this.

Thats normal. Mine has done that since the minute it was made and installed. Its windows' registry and service handler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svchost

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... t-running/