What is the "wshost.exe" ? Variant 12823356

Our database contains 71 different files for filename wshost.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the wshost.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wshost.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has 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
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\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-store-client-ui-wshost_31bf3856ad364e35_6.2.9200.16384_none_6c4cd5d639b99bb6
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
High oc2
Digital Signature:
Microsoft Windows

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
Windows Defender2016-09-07 23:11:48
Avira Antivirus2016-07-25 22:11:12
Kaspersky Free2016-07-13 11:36:49
Norton 360 Premier Edition2016-07-03 20:25:54
Webroot SecureAnywhere2016-06-25 22:04:57
avast! Antivirus2016-06-15 06:38:31
Bitdefender Antivirus2016-05-27 18:49:05
ESET Endpoint Antivirus 5.02016-05-18 10:16:07
McAfee Anti-Virus a Antispyware2016-05-17 20:18:58
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

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.
Our final rating for this file is Safe. Final rating is 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"

  • 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.