Conhost exe

It says 'Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.'

I'm in the Northeast of England and it's 2.30AM so reluctantly I need to stop now. Should I try System Restore tomorrow?

For some reason I downloaded dragon Naturally Speaking from their website, all 2gb of it, and it took about 8 hours. I did order a backup disc so I can uninstall.

richc46 said:

Only of you know when problem started. Then go back 5 days before. You have to be sure its not a virus, before using system restore or you could put the virus into system restore, too

I downloaded the latest version of Stinger which found nothing so decided to have a look on the Microsoft seven forum. They've heard about it but so far don't have a solution or a reason. Someone seemed pretty certain it was being caused by itunes which I had installed two weeks ago so I've uninstalled that and restarted the laptop. So far today there is no sign of conhost exe on the running processes. So I still have no idea whether it's a virus or not.

Multiple instances (dozens) of conhost.exe running. Windows 7 Pro (32-bit)
This is the thread on the Microsoft forum.

Yes, I noticed yesterday there were times when the memory usage went up to almost 80%. It's showing on task manager at the moment but just one of it so far. I honestly have no idea what to do now apart from waiting to see if uninstalling itunes works.

Update. It started multiplying faster which meant I was having to restart more often and windows seemed to be crashing more frequently so yesterday I reinstalled Windows 7. After 24 hours there is no sign of Conhost exe. on Task Manager. I don't see why there should be I have no idea what a console window is and why would I ever do a Command Prompt?