What is the "taskhostex.exe" ? Variant 12884141

Our database contains 98 different files for filename taskhostex.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the taskhostex.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name taskhostex.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 taskhostex.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Host Process for Windows Tasks
Version:: 6.2.9200.16384
MD5:: a8cc606c6ec9f192434330b25e4e095f
SHA1:: 78d75aee8fcd2fc313c4dcc33a7f54c1314e33aa
SHA256:: f9d58d8dacba6be69a521ed6d3062d53c920071d8abab79d1db9a5dcd26f25bc
Size:: 72192
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: High

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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
Avira Antivirus	2016-09-04 18:09:04
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
Kaspersky Free	2016-08-26 06:28:02
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8.0	2016-08-25 10:04:15
360 Total Security	2016-08-25 06:34:52

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Filename "taskhostex.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 MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhostex.exe (Variant: 12239585)
The taskhost.exe is a Task Host which is a generic Host Process for Windows 7 32-bit Services. This generic process acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs. At startup of the system the TASKHOST checks the number of Services in the Registry and builds a list of DLL-based services which should be loaded and then loads them. For each DLL-based service of group of services there should be one running instance of taskhost.exe. Here You can find informative article about this file from Microsoft : http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/what-is-host-process-for-windows-tasks-and-why/dfb80585-00f3-4970-b8d3-44f157a8ed35?msgId=80efd61e-896e-4554-b46a-93216c7fff86