svchost.exe tries to access Internet

Hello. I've been using XP for about a month now. There's one thing I'd like to know. . . again. Whenever I boot up XP the Norton Internet Security alarms that svchost is trying to access the internet which I always let it not.

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Hello.
 
I've been using XP for about a month now. There's one thing I'd like to know...again. Whenever I boot up XP the Norton Internet Security alarms that "svchost is trying to access the internet" which I always let it not. My internet connection is CATV and I don't run any file server or something. I've looked MS online support and found something about svchost.exe but it doesn't have the answer of my question.
Could anybody tell me whether I should let it access or not?
Any advices appriciated.
 
Thanks.

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Hello!
 
Well what exactly is SVCHOST.EXE? At average I have about 4 instances of svchost running on my system... 2 are run by the system and 2 within my username... I feel strange about it...
 
Thanks,
-Andrej