What is the "prevhost.exe" ? Variant 5527624

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:: 6.0.6001.18000
MD5:: e8bb77eb9bf86557f7cc328714e821ee
SHA1:: 20de1c088389a206dda165d9e87a4b5a863d603d
SHA256:: 05df5e46ada3547cb1dd851594ab9c634bbdb90c04c5f2556f55f0bab1413183
Size:: 26112
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows Vista
Occurence:: Low

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This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall Antivirus	2016-05-10 22:59:01
360 Total Security	2015-12-29 10:54:15
Norton 360	2015-09-28 13:35:56
AVG Internet Security 2015	2015-06-22 19:54:40
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2013	2015-01-25 07:55:16
avast! Antivirus	2014-12-16 07:22:09
AVG Internet Security 2013	2014-05-02 04:27:53
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012	2014-03-02 20:32:07
Microsoft Security Essentials	2013-01-15 22:16:15

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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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