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I'm currently having recurring "generic host for win32" crashes, and the culprit seems to be svchost.exe (network service) which is currently handling the service "Remote Procedure Call" or RPCSS.dll. It continues to increase in 4K increments until it is 1) slowing down the computer it crashes or 2) RPC crashes and forces a 60 shutdown.

Things I have attempted in order to rectify the situation with the memory leak includes:

Avast/Adaware/SuperAntiSpyware scans indicating that I am clean

Switched off Windows Update Services

The Windows KB927891 Patch + WUA 3.0 (Says I already have this installed, the WUA)

CCleaner to clean the registry

I am running Windows XP SP3 on an Asus Laptop. Wireless Drivers are the ones in the 12.0.4.0 Wireless Software. Also running 177.98 Nvidia drivers for a go7600 (drivers from laptopvideo2go.com).

Any insight would be highly appreciated.

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You definently covered most of the things I would've recommend checking. It does sound like a virus though.

You need to identify which SVCHOST is crashing (as multiple run) and what that specific SVCHOST is running. See link

Hopefully that will give you a list of windows services / applications that might be causing svchost to crash.

Another option also, try removing 3rd party software and driver software from your OS. 1 by 1, start with antivirus and firewall apps as they may be conflicting with SP3.

Make sure that you're not using Microsoft Update (as opposed to Windows Update).

gave that a try to no prevail. removed adaware to no prevail. I guess ill keep removing these apps one by one.

by any chance, are itunes 8 or avast! AV known to cause memory leaks in SP3?

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The problem you are having may be due to mal-ware and not a virus. You could try going to malwarebytes.org and downloaded their anti-malware tool and running it.

Malware Bytes declares me clear of anything, as does avast!. I also removed Windows XP SP3 and discovered that the problem remains. RPC has the following dependencies:

avast! antivirus (mail and web scanner)

Background Intelligent Transfer Service

COM+ Event System

COM+ System Application

Cryptographic Services

Distributed Link Tracing Client

Distributed Transaction Coordinator

Error Reporting Service

Help and Support

HID Input Service

Indexing Service

Infrared Moniter

Intel Proset/Wireless Event Log

Intel Proset/Wireless Registry Service

iPod Service

IPSEC Services

Logical Disk Manager

Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service

Messenger

Messenger Sharing Folders USN Journal Reader Service

MS Software Shadow Copy Provider

Network Connections

Network Provisioning Service

Print Spooler

Protected Storage

QoS RSVP

Remote Desktop Help Session Manger

Removable Storage

Routing and Remote Access

Security Accounts Manager

Security Center

Shell Hardware Detection

System Restore Service

Task Scheduler

Telephony

Terminal Services

Upload Manager

Volume Shadow Copy

Windows Audio

Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)

Windows Installer

Windows Management Instrumentation

Wireless Zero Configuration

WMI Performance Adapter

Any more thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

have you tried processexplorer and processmonitor?those should show something if something is wrong.also here are google results for you to check into for the problem

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&...-8&oe=utf-8

have you tried processexplorer and processmonitor?those should show something if something is wrong.also here are google results for you to check into for the problem

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&...-8&oe=utf-8

yep, tried them both and they simply pointed towards RPCSS.dll, and none of the dependencies seemed to be doing anything it shouldn't be.

regardless, i put up a clean xp3 installation and no leaks, and have most of my programs installed again with no problems.

thanks all.

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