I noticed that my scheduled Symantec Antivirus CE scans were not running when
they were supposed to these last 5 days

I read this may be a problem with the task scheduler not running

I open services.msc and see the task scheduler has status of started but
when I look in the task manager, I do not see svchost.exe in the processes
tab. Shouldn't this be running? If I go to services.msc and restart the
task scheduler, I still do not see svchost.exe running in the processes tab
of the task manager. I am using windows server 2003 service pack 2.

biff <biff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I noticed that my scheduled Symantec Antivirus CE scans were not
> running when they were supposed to these last 5 days
>
> I read this may be a problem with the task scheduler not running
>
> I open services.msc and see the task scheduler has status of started
> but when I look in the task manager, I do not see svchost.exe in the
> processes tab. Shouldn't this be running? If I go to services.msc
> and restart the task scheduler, I still do not see svchost.exe
> running in the processes tab of the task manager. I am using windows
> server 2003 service pack 2.

svchost.exe does far more than just run scheduled tasks and you should
always see it running....make sure you tell task manager to show you the
processes from all users. But it isn't really relevant. The SAV scans
failing to run should've generated an error in the event logs - I'd start
there.