What is the "taskhost.exe" ? Variant 12290365

Our database contains 841 different files for filename taskhost.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the taskhost.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name taskhost.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Host Process for Windows Tasks. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process taskhost.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Host Process for Windows Tasks
Version:: 6.2.9200.16384
MD5:: 26bd3309ad2684dd514ce1fc9654aecf
SHA1:: 6dd0af749f034b50a9911833df9bc1d41d5dc42b
SHA256:: d97c8b513d93613b1262f15c76a4fb8605f46c2c8125a34588516b03ec6b3cba
Size:: 77824
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 8
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Windows Defender	2016-09-05 15:37:17
Avast Antivirus	2016-09-05 14:03:45
avast! Antivirus	2016-09-02 17:18:25
AVG Internet Security	2016-09-02 16:29:39
Norton Internet Security	2016-08-29 19:26:05
Kaspersky Internet Security	2016-08-26 20:23:03
360 Total Security	2016-08-25 06:34:52
Baidu Antivirus	2016-08-24 02:24:50
Panda Free Antivirus	2016-07-27 17:54:01
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8.0	2016-07-27 05:49:57

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100% of reviewed files are marked as System file.

Our final rating for this file is Safe. Final rating is based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

Filename "taskhost.exe" is used by Microsoft Windows System files. Many threats uses filenames of System Processes to camouflage itself. You should consider suspected any file which uses system filename and is not stored in system directory or has invalid file version information. Correct system file contains full file version information from Microsoft.

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SAFErating from user Admin (Variant: 12290365)
Windows 8 version of Host Process for Windows Tasks

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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe (Variant: 27913205)
TASKHOST is a generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs - it is called a Host Process for Windows Tasks. At startup TASKHOST checks the Services portion of the Registry to construct a list of DLL-based services that it needs to load, and then loads them. There can be many instances of TASKHOST running, as there will be one instance of TASKHOST for every DLL-based service or grouping of services (the grouping of services is determined by the programmers who wrote the services).
SAFErating from user rots for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe