What is svchost.exe application error?

Answer 1

There 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"

Answer 2

svchost.exe (Service Host, or SvcHost) is a system process which hosts multiple Windows services. Its executable image, %SystemRoot%\System32\Svchost.exe or %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\Svchost.exe (for 32-bit services running on 64-bit systems) runs in multiple instances, each hosting one or more services. It is essential in the implementation of so-called shared service processes, where a number of services can share a process in order to reduce resource consumption.

Answer 3

SVChost.exe is a process used by Microsoft Windows. Sometimes malware and viruses masquerade as SVCHost.exe in an attempt to conceal themselves. Microsoft have information on their site about the different SVCHost processes.