WHY SO MANY svchost

[firebird350zz]

My new computer (2 months old) has Windows XP. I noticed in the task mananger under processes, there's like 5 or 6 svchost processes running at the same time. Is this bad or normal? I've never used xp before this computer.
I know some svchost processes can relate to some virus or worm, but I'm not having any trouble with the machine at all. Help please
I guess what I am really getting to, is if there are bad bugs here, then how do I know which svhost to get rid of, and which to keep..............

[kryyst]

That's pretty normal, I currently have 6 going on my machine and I guarantee you mine's clean. If any of them are chewing up more then 02 CPU clock cycles regularly you may have some cause for concern.

[firebird350zz]

Thanks for the tip. I checked the cycles and they seem normal.
Thanks again,.

[walker5467]

svchost stands for service host.. its the backbone of most MS services. its normal to have that many running.. although in NT closing them was really fun. (hard crash)