What is the "perfhost.exe" ? Variant 591358

Our database contains 26 different files for filename perfhost.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the perfhost.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name perfhost.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description x86 Performance Counter Host. 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 perfhost.exe.

perfhost.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
x86 Performance Counter Host
Version:
6.1.7600.16385
MD5:
e495e408c93141e8fc72dc0c6046ddfa
SHA1:
bae3a88e2b0ff5dfb8e8ae126bb2a65170bbff81
SHA256:
489b957dada0dc128a09468f1ad082dcc657e86053208ea06a12937be86fb919
Size:
20992
Directory:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64
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
360 Total Security2016-09-07 22:13:22
Avast Antivirus2016-09-07 01:11:09
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-09-06 07:26:22
Norton Security2016-09-04 20:55:33
Webroot SecureAnywhere2016-09-04 12:24:53
ESET Smart Security 9.0.402.02016-09-04 12:24:53
Avira Antivirus2016-09-03 10:21:58
eScan Internet Security for Windows2016-09-02 15:45:08
Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 for Windows2016-09-01 02:46:12
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Is the Process "perfhost.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 "perfhost.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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