Windows 10: Svchost strange connections - Remote Desktop Services

Every once in a while I check my basic w10 resource monitor to see if I spot something out of the ordinary.

Today I saw some connections to some strange domains (mail.dopinghosting.com, customer-GDL-MCA-68-174.megared.net.mx) and found out through Process Explorer that these were all towards the Remote Desktop Services.



Needless to say this freaks me out a little, since I use Remote desktop all the time.

I'm aware that Windows' svchost.exe often shows a lot of CDN connections.

Since I'm familiar with the phone home features of the apps I use i.e. Google apps for business, Dropbox, Adobe Creative cloud etc, I'm usually not too woried about svchost sessions. However this one weirds me out.



How secure is Windows Remote Desktop Services and should I be using it instead of a third party tool?

Also how worried should I be of such connections (which are most likely automated login attempts). Can the RDS be misused to unknowingly capture screens and input?



Anyway, I disabled the service for now. Help appreciated... Thanks!

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Remote Desktop Connection problems


Have you tried Remote Desktop Connection, to connect from your Windows 10 laptop to your Windows 7 desktop? Try it first, post back and tell how it went.

Some additional help because you mentioned you are a remote newbie *Wink. The windows 7 related tutorials from our sister site the Seven Forums:

1. On Windows 7 desktop, set network location to either Home or Work (I recommend Work):
   • Network Location - Set as Home, Work, or Public Network - Windows 7 Help Forums
2. On Windows 7 desktop, allow incoming remote connections:
   • Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) - Network - Windows 7 Help Forums
3. On Windows 7 desktop, find out its IP address:
   • IP Address - Locate and Find for Your Computer - Windows 7 Help Forums
4. On Windows 10 laptop, start the Remote Desktop application and connect to the Windows 7 desktop using the IP address from step 3 above (see Part Three in the tutorial):
   • RDC - Connect Remotely to your Windows 10 PC - Windows 10 Forums
   • Notice that although the tutorial is written for Windows 10, it also applies to Windows 7

Try the above, post back how it went.

 

Remote Desktop

Okay guys need some help here before going crazy...
I am trying to setup a remote desktop connection and see exactly what the logged on user is looking at with out going through Windows Remote Desktop.

Since its local network I don't have any password or want to setup a password.

Any suggestions are appreciated

 

What does the svchost do?

Lots of Windows services are tied to the SVChost, and /or are listed as SVChost in the process list(s).

Unfortunatley with Vista, there's a lot more dependencies between the services, and thus you'll be FORCED to run more instances of SVChosts; unlike XP where things were more independent and you could disable more features resulting in less SVChost instances. That and XP and Vista are different.

Regardless of your Windows version, you can check out some service slimming guides or goto Black Viper's website and take his advice. Depending on your needs you may be able to cut down the amount of SVChost running, and save some RAM.

XP should never have an SVChost using 50mb. Vista however can.