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How To Deal With Svchost Application Error?

I’m getting following error “Svchost.exe – application error” in the window called Generic host process.

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4 Responses to “How To Deal With Svchost Application Error?”

  1. Iran says:
    February 19, 2010 at 10:40 am

    Hi,
    The are several possible reasons of this error message.
    “Reason 1: You have one of numerous worms, viruses and trojans which pretent themselves to be legal svchost.exe or use legal svchost.exe to run themselves at windows startup. These threats include: CashToolbar Downloader-MY, System1060, CoolWebSearch Svchost32, ADCLICK-AG, ADCLICK-AX, ADUYO-A, AGENT-V, AGOBOT-KL, AUTOTROJ-C and many others.
    Reason 2: Some legal DLL which uses svchost.exe to run itself at Windows startup crashed and causec crash of the whole svchost.exe service.
    Reason 3: You have just installed update from Microsoft which contains errorneous verison of Windows Installer or double-byte character set (DBCS) characters support (only occures in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)).
    Reason 4: You installed old printer or scanner drivers from Hewlett-Packard which are incompatible with the current version of svchost.exe”

  2. Muckdoom… says:
    February 19, 2010 at 10:40 am

    - Make sure you have updated your virus defintions if it is still not found download Avira Anti-Virus (free) from http://free-virus-removal-tools.blogspot…

  3. Sotheil says:
    February 19, 2010 at 10:40 am

    last time I saw this it was from a windows update problem.

  4. Sly_Old_ says:
    February 19, 2010 at 10:40 am

    this site may help:http://www.pchell.com/support/svchosterr…

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