...And i think i traced it to LmHosts, though it doesn't seem clear WHY that service would eat my CPU cycles...<br><br>The service is resident in svchosts.exe, and a tasklist /svc shows that that ...

svvhost.exe uses a lot of CPU and it seems to grow the longer my computer is on. I've googled for an answer, but can't find any sort of direct answer on what is wrong.