svchost eating up resources

[Covenant Joel]

For anyone computer guys out there, any idea why svchost.exe would be eating up between 60,000 and 100,000 k's? My computer's been doing some strange things, and I know svchost isn't supposed to take up that much resources, but I've run several virus scans, and nothing comes up, so I don't know what's going on. I've also had some other weird problems, like my audio quit working for no apparent reason, and other things like that. Thanks.

 

[BJClark]

It could be a bad file, or bad code written into the file itself.

And in that your audio stopped working there could be a conflict with the two programs, I've had that happen before when I installed a new program.

It could also be you have a spyware program that found it's way onto your computer, so you might want to check that as well. Virus scan programs don't typically locate those.