What is the "taskhost.exe" ? Variant 17639337

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. 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:: 6.1.7601.18010
MD5:: 639774c9acd063f028f6084abf5593ad
SHA1:: 1ab1e31fe9f3347f68b1eee8ff02f525fc46ccc9
SHA256:: 9dfd80610cbbc9188f6c6bc85c87016b0ae42254fc289c2b578e85282bdd9c23
Size:: 68608
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
ZoneAlarm Extreme Security Antivirus	2016-09-07 23:40:38
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-09-07 23:24:40
Avira Antivirus	2016-09-07 22:55:23
avast! Antivirus	2016-09-07 22:45:52
COMODO Antivirus	2016-09-07 22:30:49
Norton AntiVirus	2016-09-07 22:18:20
IObit Malware Fighter	2016-09-07 22:17:10
Baidu Antivirus	2016-09-07 22:17:10
ESET Endpoint Security 6.2.2033.1	2016-09-07 21:33:08

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SAFErating from user Stan for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe
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SAFErating from user System for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe
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