What is the "svhost.exe" ?

Our database contains 215 different files for filename svhost.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name svhost.exe. This files most often belongs to product µTorrent. and were most often developed by company BitTorrent, Inc.. This files most often have description µTorrent. Agregate rating is 1(1) stars - based on 2 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process svhost.exe.

svhost.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "svhost.exe"

Product:
µTorrent
Company:
BitTorrent, Inc.
Description:
µTorrent
Version:
3.2.2.28595
MD5:
7527f74ec97b7609838966063522bb18
SHA1:
58129736b0b7bfd26b41a4129e0fcdf89c86cd7f
SHA256:
0759a57cfab7a044f15794f27cc6564bb74ea5c950ca4f0900b09f1511237551
Size:
968592
Directory:
C:\Windows\INF
Operating System:
Windows XP
Occurence:
High oc2
Digital Signature:
BitTorrent Inc

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

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Threat .
Latest new variant of the file with name "svhost.exe" was discovered 4316 days ago. Our database contains 20 variants of the file "svhost.exe" with final rating Safe and 17 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

User Reviews of the "svhost.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "svhost.exe"

  • THREATrating from user sukanta for file C:\Windows\System32\svhost\svhost.exe (Variant: 319942)

    svhost.exe is a threat as I found and it is detected by Microsoft Security Essentials. Its a 100% threat. The name of the file "svhost.exe" is made similar to "svchost.exe" which is windows service, to fool common people. Trojan.Generic virus

  • THREATrating from user checkit for file C:\Windows\Temp\svhost.exe (Variant: 984029)

    Avast! antivirus caught this program trying to download/run a setup program from a malicious website on start-up. r-file.su/data1/setup2738.exe Whether or not this is the program in question, this is what system explorer found on look-up.