bugsonfilm.com Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 Computer running win2000IEv6broadband just set upAfter a short period of time an error popup appears:'Sychost.exe generated errors & will be closed. Need to restart the program'When this happens, in Internet Explorer I loose ability to:*copy and paste*click certain links that need new windows to openAnyone know:*what and why this is about*where the file isAppreciate any knowledge or thoughts.Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 sorry...... I posted this into your other thread.. I have some stuff to do but I notice a couple of others lurking about who could help you with this one'sychost.exe' is an indication of the Blaster Worm I thinkIs your AV up to date?http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...aster.worm.htmlHere is some removal info..... let us know if you have any problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 Definitely the blaster worm .Have a look at this http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.aspDownload Stinger to remove http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ (if you have access to another machine that is) and apply the M$ patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 yep it shoud be svhost.exe http://www.computing.net/windows2000/wwwbo...orum/54002.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 fix for 2000 http://rrv.net/virus/Windows2000-KB823980-x86-ENU.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Bugsonfilm....... I'm worried, is everything ok ? :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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