What is the "taskhost.exe" ? Variant 14540108

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.

taskhost.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Host Process for Windows Tasks
Version:
6.2.9200.16420
MD5:
67b1fa221cb775fefdf4842db8c6817c
SHA1:
fce39ef2474486689a3170c05791a16144c3f320
SHA256:
d43bcf78511544924e31f4df2dfdc854d18d1b44cdce6d009ab4da2427ce08ec
Size:
53760
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
Medium oc1

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
Panda Free Antivirus2016-06-18 15:13:10
360 Total Security2016-01-29 05:08:19
Windows Defender2015-10-01 20:05:00
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 20152015-09-12 04:29:39
avast! Antivirus2015-01-14 22:18:18
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate2014-03-26 10:14:11
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 20142014-03-23 02:51:16
Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition2014-03-19 14:53:28
Avira Desktop2013-08-04 21:24:36
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Is the Process "taskhost.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
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.

User Reviews of the "taskhost.exe"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne (Variant: 14540108)

    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).