Host Process for Windows Services (svchost.exe) and browser crashes

hellod00d · Aug 27, 2009

Hello,

Recently, my laptop has been going insane. It is an HP Pavilion DV9200CTO, Windows Vista Home Premium 32. I changed the network properties about 4 days ago from WPA-PSK / TKIP to WPA-PSK + WPA2 - PSK / AES + TKIP so that my roommate could get internet. Almost right after doing that, my laptop restarted with a "windows antivirus pro" fake antivirus program. I followed the removal steps all over google searches but I still seem to have a problem. I've run ad-aware, windows defender, and spybot S&D. I got rid of most of the problems either through going directly into my registry and deleting them and then working from there but for some reason I'm still getting two recurring problems that are probably related to each other.

I constantly get an alert saying:
"Host Process for Windows Services stopped working and was closed"
- in my event log it shows that this is tied to svchost.exe
- i tried to fix this by disabling RAC but that didn't do anything, I also followed the tips at http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/host-process-for-windows-services-stopped-working/ but none of them worked.

Also, when I run any browser (firefox, ie) it keeps on crashing - mostly when I try to search things through yahoo/google. At first I thought it was due to the new FF update, but it happens in IE also, so I'm guessing it has to do something with this svchost.exe error I keep getting.

Anyway, if anyone could help me out, thatd be great. I'll keep trying with S&D cause it seems to still be picking a few straggler programs up but I've been running antivirus/antimalware programs since monday and googling all kinds of stuff - none of which have worked to get rid of the above stated program.

Thanks in advance!

chaslang · Aug 30, 2009

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Host Process for Windows Services (svchost.exe) and browser crashes

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