svchost.exe - baring access to Chrome

[seacue]

Thank you Mike,

Starting malwarebytes normally just got the infected svchost eating all the cycles. Will try your suggestions. I brought the offending PC home from its place of work.

Downloading will be hard since the svchost problem stalls the browser used to download. Since there is a dual-boot Mint/Ubuntu on the same PC, maybe that's the way to do the download. Or I'll see whether I can do it on another pc and carry it on a USB flash to the sick one.

thanks again,

seacue

Added: It's getting late here. Will try things tomorrow.