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Wraith | 11:19 Wed 09th Feb 2005 | Technology
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I friend of mine has a new weird process eating a lot of memory. It's called swwhost.exe. When this popped up in the process list his internet connection stopped working.

He's running windows XP. Any ideas what it is and how to get rid of it?

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I've looked this process up and it appears to be a virus or something. There's loads of anitvirus programs you can get for free off the internet. I cant remember the URL's but look for AVG antivirus 7, Ad-Aware SE professional, Hijackthis etc. there are loads more and they should get rid of the problem
12:20 Wed 09th Feb 2005
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heres the link to avg that palfreyman mentions. this is a free version but very reliable in my opinion. http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

12:32 Wed 09th Feb 2005
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He's already run AVG, Norton and Trend Micro on-line scan. None of them detect it.

He has also run AdAware, Spybot and Microsofts new spyware removal tool. None of them detect it.

 

I can find no references to it on Symantec's site or on Microsofts site.

12:43 Wed 09th Feb 2005
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Have you turned off Windows' System Restore and run "Hijack this" ?

I'd also read this :
http://tinyurl.com/42umj
17:09 Wed 09th Feb 2005
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I'll suggest that to him. Thanks.

19:33 Wed 09th Feb 2005

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