Originally Posted by Ubereil
Interestingly though, I did the same search as before now, but now another file showed up, an SVCHOST.EXE-072604B0.pf (located in C:\Windows\prefetch). Switching name went perfectly. Any comments?

The prefetch file showing up is some sort of performance improvement of windows (technical: it remembers in what order segments are loaded, so the same program can be started up faster next time). It's best to leave that alone, as it poses absolutely no threat.

The fact that you can rename those svchost files means that none of them are actually running (apart from the windows\system32 file, of course), and so they aren't harmful.

Conclusion: you're absolutely safe from the svchosts grin

Originally Posted by Ubereil
You ought to use url tags on the link though (and links in general), as it is now it interpets the dot as part of the link, which makes it link to an "article can't be found" site.

Right, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!

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