What is the "taskhost.exe" ? Variant 676387

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 2 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:: 7fa8ba5a780e4757964ac9d4238302b9
SHA1:: 002d079abf217b3fdc3f0c86af93a2c51ab45227
SHA256:: 65e3d8ce737896647065103fbb4d58e6a34171d0a48662a832cfdac3cf469701
Size:: 49152
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 7
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8.0	2016-09-07 21:37:24
Kaspersky Internet Security	2016-09-07 20:07:49
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-09-07 15:33:24
Avast Antivirus	2016-09-07 15:33:24
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition	2016-09-07 14:49:03
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 9.0.381.1	2016-09-07 09:08:16
ESET Smart Security 8.0	2016-09-06 22:54:16
Avira Antivirus	2016-09-06 20:17:00
360 Total Security	2016-09-06 16:14:59
Panda Free Antivirus	2016-09-06 15:26:55

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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 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