What is the "prevhost.exe" ?

Our database contains 65 different files for filename prevhost.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name prevhost.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Preview Handler Surrogate Host. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 10 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process prevhost.exe.

This file is an integral part of MS Windows, marked as a Preview Handler Surrogate Host - which is not very descriptive in the context of the file's actions. This file is used when a preview of a document (doesn't matter what type of document, if the association with the file extension is there in the system) should be shown to the user. This file can throw error if the preview can not be performed. Check this article about related problems : http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/138477-Preview-Handler-Surrogate-Host

prevhost.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "prevhost.exe"

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Preview Handler Surrogate Host
Version:
6.1.7601.17562
MD5:
5fac5f264d61d99ee8961480818b9def
SHA1:
7350394ea21974a0689800f2c7deec86c01d30b2
SHA256:
e9717c3c3cb0a8e48764edcf90c7c9287b659489661dc5e6f845e1124d9378b9
Size:
31232
Directory:
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell-previewhost_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17562_none_a12b5a6217a88927
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

Is the Process "prevhost.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
Latest new variant of the file with name "prevhost.exe" was discovered 4122 days ago. Our database contains 19 variants of the file "prevhost.exe" with final rating Safe and 3 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

User Reviews of the "prevhost.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "prevhost.exe"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\SysWOW64\prevhost.exe (Variant: 17981864)

    This file is an integral part of MS Windows, marked as a Preview Handler Surrogate Host - which is not very descriptive in the context of the file's actions. This file is used when a preview of a document (doesn't matter what type of document, if the association with the file extension is there in the system) should be shown to the user. This file can throw error if the preview can not be performed. Check this article about related problems : http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/138477-Preview-Handler-Surrogate-Host

  • SAFErating from user Bear for file C:\Windows\System32\prevhost.exe (Variant: 26002)

    Vista Preview Handler Surrogate Host