Purpose: svhost.exe - Brief Description
Sdbot.gen is not an specific worm, but a generic detection for future variants of the Sdbot family. This group of worms has the following common characteristics:

They act as backdoors, thus allowing hackers to gain remote access over the affected computer in order to carry out actions that compromise user confidentiality and impede the tasks performed.
They use their own IRC client in order to join an IRC channel and accept remote control commands, such as launching denial of service (DoS) attacks against websites.
They can also download and run files on the affected computer.
They spread across computer networks. In order to do so, it checks if the affected computer belongs to a network. If so, they attempt to access the network shared resources, using passwords that are typical or easy to guess.
Then, they make a copy of themselves to those shared resources.
The real windows process is called svChost.exe has vendor "Microsoft Corporation".

svhost.exe DISABLE AND REMOVE. Intrusive adware or spyware.

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.00%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 2 MB