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Few days ago I turned on MSN, as usual, and tried to sign in...(I have Windows XP. Figure I should say now.)
Suddenly, a message popped up, saying something about svchost.exe not working(didn't pay attention at the time, sorry!)
Then MSN(Well, Windows Live Messenger, actually) stopped responding. I couldn't even close it. I tried opening Task Manager, but nothing happened. I tried manually restarting the computer- Start, Turn Off, Restart- but still nothing happened! I had to hard reboot the computer and hope for the best...
Eventually, after taking significantly longer than usual, the "choose your user" thing came on, and a message popped up, saying that svchost.exe had to be recovered by a log or something and it was successful. Then, when I started(clicking on my profile), it loaded, said that for my "data safety" winlogon had to be deactivated...which it then was. However, right now, it's working, or at least appears as a process on task manager.
After that, my computer has slowed down....a lot. Upon looking on Task Manager, nothing seems to be strange, other than a fact that one svchost.exe takes up about 22 MB consistently- all the others look the same. I haven't run a full scan with my Kaspersky, but I don't think it's a virus- didn't see anything out of the ordinary on Task Manager apart from the svchost.exe. I'm scared to run MSN again because this is a family computer, having important files, and I don't want to crash the comp or anything...and I'd rather not tell them because they'll blame the whole thing on me. Any help, guys?
Few days ago I turned on MSN, as usual, and tried to sign in...(I have Windows XP. Figure I should say now.)
Suddenly, a message popped up, saying something about svchost.exe not working(didn't pay attention at the time, sorry!)
Then MSN(Well, Windows Live Messenger, actually) stopped responding. I couldn't even close it. I tried opening Task Manager, but nothing happened. I tried manually restarting the computer- Start, Turn Off, Restart- but still nothing happened! I had to hard reboot the computer and hope for the best...
Eventually, after taking significantly longer than usual, the "choose your user" thing came on, and a message popped up, saying that svchost.exe had to be recovered by a log or something and it was successful. Then, when I started(clicking on my profile), it loaded, said that for my "data safety" winlogon had to be deactivated...which it then was. However, right now, it's working, or at least appears as a process on task manager.
After that, my computer has slowed down....a lot. Upon looking on Task Manager, nothing seems to be strange, other than a fact that one svchost.exe takes up about 22 MB consistently- all the others look the same. I haven't run a full scan with my Kaspersky, but I don't think it's a virus- didn't see anything out of the ordinary on Task Manager apart from the svchost.exe. I'm scared to run MSN again because this is a family computer, having important files, and I don't want to crash the comp or anything...and I'd rather not tell them because they'll blame the whole thing on me. Any help, guys?
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