Svcost.exe virus

[kaiser1993]

A lot of them are running in the task manger and are slowing the laptop to mega slow speed; I think it is the Svchost virus. How do you remove the damn thing?

[Simetrical]

svchost.exe is the name of a process that contains Windows services. It's normal for a lot of svchost.exe processes to be running and using a decent amount of memory and maybe CPU. Trying to get rid of them would be inadvisable. If you suspect you have a virus, run a virus scan.

[kaiser1993]

What makes me suspect is the fact that there's two accounts; only one has this lag problems which is also the account with loads of Svchosts running.
Virus's can sometimes only effect a single account can't there?

[Bolkonsky]

If they're only installed to one account, yes. I strongly doubt it however, like Sim says, it's not unusual. If you delete them, your sound might stop, or a bunch of other services might stop, making it impossible to perform services like Windows Update, etc.

[PoleCat]

Simple tutorial for detecting and deleting a Windows Pre-fetch virus. Not saying that that's what you have but if you can find an "svchost.exe" running outside of the Win32/System folder then it's a good bet that's the cause. Good luck!