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I have 12 svchosts entries in my system currently - which is about normal.
As its name implies, it's the host process for many of the system services, and each different group of services will open a new instance of the process.
15 at boot does sound excessive, though - my Pro VM has 10.
Perhaps a rootkit check would be a good idea...
Download the TDSSKiller from Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller
run it (leave it at default settings!) and see if it picks anything up.
If it does, I suggest that you seek specialist advice.