Am I supposed to have 6 copies of this SVCHOST.exe running (there's another one up the top) ? My Antivirus (AVG 7) won't find it and my 3 spyware checkers (Adaware, Spybot and the MS beta) have come up dry as well. I've got the nasty feeling I've been virused, my computer seems to be slowing down and destabilising a bit, with a random shutdown after 20 minutes and then running ok for the rest of the day.

Here's a direct quote from MS....
"Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that are run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the registry to construct a list of services that it needs to load. There can be multiple instances of Svchost.exe running at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that separate services can be run depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This allows for better control and debugging."

Mine is for sure clean and I have 5 svchost instances atm.

There were/are a couple welchia variants that tried to register and run as svchost, but your software would have caught that.

If you get a chance, trend micro has a pretty decent online scanner that I use sometimes to double check my SAV
trend

Yeah, multiple instances of svchost are the norm - I have 7 running on my machine, heh.

Cheers guys, it's getting to be a real pest, think it's time to take it to the people who know about this stuff.