I'm new to the board and I'm in need of a little assistance, I have recently freshly installed Windows 2000 Pro on my girlfriends laptop, It installed with no problems what so ever, however as soon as I access the internet I receieve a message stating 'scvhost.exe has encountered and problem, please restart the program' now this only happens when I go on the internet (IE4), however I have noticed that once this little error pops up, my folders do not show up on my C:, i know there there as it says 80 files/folders shown, 3 folders hidden... Is this some sort of Worm/malware?? or is it something to do with Win 2000?? I've thought about re-installing everything and then installing IE6 along with AVG free edition and Spybot before going online, will this work??
scvhost.exe is bad. svchost.exe is good, so don't get confused. You need to delete the scvhost.exe, this will have to be done in safe mode.
Then, download HijackThis.
Create a folder for it and extract the file there.
Do a system scan and save a log file.
Post that log file in your next reply.
I seem to have stopped the problem however,l I re-installed Windows 2000 Pro, installed Zone Alarm, and updated with Service Pack 3 and IE6,along with an installation of Spybot. But thanks for clearing up the difference between scvhost.ex and svchost.exe
