What is the "taskhost.exe" ? Variant 2408412

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 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process taskhost.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Host Process for Windows Tasks
Version:: 6.1.7601.17514
MD5:: 517110bd83835338c037269e603db55d
SHA1:: 61478d71931fb3e304bc341236ab0db1d6c26e09
SHA256:: 499a803de14905f2ff7bca56d81cc983e16a8d9cea93ec4b84a06a366e7cb939
Size:: 69120
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
avast! Antivirus	2016-09-07 23:20:59
360 Total Security	2016-09-07 22:13:22
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-09-07 21:32:04
Norton Internet Security Online	2016-09-07 21:06:18
Kaspersky Internet Security	2016-09-07 19:21:27
Avast Antivirus	2016-09-07 19:09:02
Avira Antivirus	2016-09-07 18:52:06
ESET Smart Security 8.0	2016-09-07 18:26:43
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 9.0.375.1	2016-09-07 18:19:10
Kaspersky Free	2016-09-07 18:02:10

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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 "taskhost.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 Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe (Variant: 675038)
"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.

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SAFErating from user System for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe (Variant: 27913205)
TASKHOST is a generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs - it is called a Host Process for Windows Tasks. At startup TASKHOST checks the Services portion of the Registry to construct a list of DLL-based services that it needs to load, and then loads them. There can be many instances of TASKHOST running, as there will be one instance of TASKHOST for every DLL-based service or grouping of services (the grouping of services is determined by the programmers who wrote the services).
SAFErating from user rots for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe