hi all hope yous are well

i am currently running win xp with norton 2003 firewall and antivirus fully
up 2 date

every so often like once an hour or so my firewall keeps popping up with the
message which goes something along the lines of somethin is trying to access
svchost.exe on your computer. its something like that i cant remember
exactly what it says im sorry im not infront of my comp at the mo. i keep
choosing to block this but its annoying keep hapening every so often could
any one tell why this is happening is it a virus or a virus trying to get on
to my computer

any information would be much appreciated, and im sorry if the information
is a bit scarce ive tried my best

thank you

hammer to the heart said:

Hi
Have you downloaded the patch MS03-026 from Microsoft?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...n/MS03-026.asp

Here's futher information that may be of help.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com.../w32.blaster.w
orm.removal.tool.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com.../w32.welchia.w
orm.removal.tool.html

i did download the patch quite a while ago before the blaster worm became
about, so i avoided that threat. thanks for your ideas n e more would be
appreciated


"Boomer" <Boomer__Baby_@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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"hammer to the heart" <hammertotheheart@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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Microsoft KB search turns up this... http://tinyurl.com/mrsx

A Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;314056

Hope one of these helps.