What is the "svchost.exe" ? Variant 2092

Our database contains 5599 different files for filename svchost.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the svchost.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name svchost.exe. This file belongs to product winapp Agregate rating is 1(1) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process svchost.exe.

Product:: winapp
Company:: (Empty Value)
Description:: (Empty Value)
Version:: 1.00
MD5:: 3c394a6f7c7c0c6fba6980b97610cd53
Size:: 487424
Directory:: %APPDATA%\Microsoft
Operating System:: Windows 7
Occurence:: Low

Is the Process "svchost.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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Our final rating for this file is Threat. Final rating is based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

38% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
55% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

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THREATrating from user Admin (Variant: 2092)
Many Antiviruses detects this file as Threat (Worm.Win32.Carrier.mm).

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Reviews for different files with filename "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\svchost.exe"

THREATrating from user Admin for file %APPDATA%\Microsoft\svchost.exe (Variant: 2024)
This file is not in the System directory and file description contain wrong values. This makes the file suspicious. The antiviruses don't detect it as threat but be careful.
THREATrating from user MikeOne for file %APPDATA%\Microsoft\svchost.exe (Variant: 2024)
The file svchost.exe is the Generic Host Process for Win32 Services used for administering 16-bit-based dynamically linked library files (DLL files) including other supplementary support applications. As a such file can be a common target for virus attack, so in case of any doubts scan it. Can have multiple instances in the memory. This file should be located in the %SYSTEM% directory, this location is suspicious, even that the file was marked as not containing any virus.