notbob > wrote:

> On 2008-03-29, sf <sf> wrote:
>
>> What's that?
>
> OK, I really meant the svchost.exe file, which I understand is XP's IM
> client. Chrystonacrutch, you can't kill it and it's a resource hog of
> epidemic proportions.

svchost runs and monitors services, one of which is messenger. It's
a generic process that runs - 'Hosts' - other programs/features.

-sw