since svchost is doubious, to say the least, I have watched it a little closer. Downloading sysinternals Process Explorer was a good idea. Now, there are several svchost instances running, infact they seem to act as a firewall wildcard for many shady OS processes, but only the DNS service is making me nervous by producing a lot traffic on the zonealarm IO meter (access every second). So I simply Stop this service using the properties/service tab of the process. THought I will no longer be able to resolve URLs now, but hey, I still can surf, but there is no more traffic caused by svchost!!! What was this traffic good(or bad) for anyway??
Seems like I only need to autostop this service somehow.
Seems like I only need to autostop this service somehow.