What is the "wshost.exe" ?

Our database contains 71 different files for filename wshost.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wshost.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description COM Surrogate. 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 wshost.exe.

wshost.exe Process

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

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
COM Surrogate
Version:
6.2.9200.16384
MD5:
4585afd2b8b15e73c42fe5976a8d4a02
SHA1:
ff49d58f7e21b4c2f05176f7f777c56d720a190d
SHA256:
6670366bd22cfa40efb41ca67bfe899994a0237a2fcd5287fd73c68f6e44c813
Size:
26776
Directory:
C:\Windows\winstore
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
High oc2
Digital Signature:
Microsoft Windows

Is the Process "wshost.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.
Latest new variant of the file with name "wshost.exe" was discovered 4525 days ago. Our database contains 3 variants of the file "wshost.exe" with final rating Safe and zero variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "wshost.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.

User Reviews of the "wshost.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "wshost.exe"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\WinStore\WSHost.exe (Variant: 12345534)

    This file is a legitimate part of Windows Vista,7,8. It is marked as a COM Surrogate porcess. This file is safe, was not marked as a threat or virus-containing application by any antivirus software. Check the MD5 hash, there can be more versions of this file. Unfortunatelly no more specific info can be find in this moment, but the file itself is safe.