What is the "taskhost.exe" ? Variant 500733

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 2 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:
6.1.7600.16385
MD5:
3eefb971d61ef9638fd21f14c703ca11
SHA1:
1618ff452b08e4a994fb5327d11833a39951c7df
SHA256:
a01bcd7e884e407c82deb84d5b31f517f32a4fa2cf143372bac896cc9478be0e
Size:
69120
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
Kaspersky Free2016-09-07 22:13:21
Avira Antivirus2016-09-07 16:44:57
Kaspersky Internet Security2016-09-07 14:52:07
Avast Antivirus2016-09-07 09:05:45
avast! Antivirus2016-09-07 07:58:21
Baidu Antivirus2016-09-06 21:40:47
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-09-06 20:48:04
Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 for Windows2016-09-06 14:33:19
AVG Internet Security2016-09-05 19:05:09
G DATA INTERNET SECURITY2016-09-05 17:45:29
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Is the Process "taskhost.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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User Reviews of the "taskhost.exe"

  • SAFErating from user kajmik (Variant: 500733)

    "taskhost.exe" file is a Task Host which is a generic Host Process for Windows Services. Windows uses taskhost.exe as the host for all DLL based services that are run.

  • SAFErating from user Don for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe