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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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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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
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/
Have you turned off Windows' System Restore and run "Hijack this" ?
I'd also read this :
http://tinyurl.com/42umj
I'd also read this :
http://tinyurl.com/42umj
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