What is the "prevhost.exe" ? Variant 502127

Our database contains 65 different files for filename prevhost.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the prevhost.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name prevhost.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Preview Handler Surrogate Host. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process prevhost.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Preview Handler Surrogate Host
Version:: 6.1.7600.16385
MD5:: 290aaf21b681b4e7d6c8abbf02beb06b
SHA1:: a52b4b04b50376c35ebed7f8accf02229c40bf6b
SHA256:: 1a38a279ffb4787037e634ba5d608d82d8f253f894fa5655bb537b2b03b3d6d7
Size:: 31232
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 7
Occurence:: Medium

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Norton Security	2016-08-29 02:55:27
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-08-29 02:55:27
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.2	2016-08-26 20:50:13
avast! Antivirus	2016-07-17 14:51:52
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition	2016-02-13 18:20:19
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate	2016-01-07 22:12:16
Kaspersky Internet Security	2015-12-26 05:41:36
AVG Internet Security 2015	2015-12-20 04:05:52
System Center Endpoint Protection	2015-09-22 18:16:37
Baidu Antivirus	2015-09-19 06:16:07

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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\prevhost.exe (Variant: 17820830)
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

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