70+ processes of svchost.exe

[dangoodwin96]

Hello,

I have 70+ processes on task manager of svchost.exe ... I have never had that many processes of svchost.exe before. I know it could mean a virus so I ran a scan with Sophos Anti-Virus and there are no viruses, only tracking cookies (which I deleted but that didn't effect the svchost processes).

I have also tried running this on cmd admin but I couldn't run this (which is understandable as this is a system process):
taskkill /im svchost.exe

I have also tried the good old fashioned turn it off and back on again, so I restarted my laptop maybe about 3 times but no effect.

Please could someone advise me if this is normal and if not, what to do?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Norton]

Same here 70. I dont worry about it as is doesn't appear to have any impact on my PC performance. In fact the purpose of Service host is to reduce resource consumption.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/