svchost.exe
Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Overview
svchost.exe has 21 known versions, the most recent one is 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). It is started as a Windows Service called 'sina_live_deamon' with the name 'EventLog'. It is run under the context of the LOCAL SERVICE account. This is executed as a shared service (which simply means that this service can share a process with other Win32 services). The average file size is about 26.45 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Microsoft Corporation by the certification authority Microsoft Corporation. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0007% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 20.57 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 42.97 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 52.43 KB per minute for reads and 16.37 KB per minute for writes.
What is svchost.exe?
Host Process for Windows Tasks is a generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs. 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.
 Details
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| File name: | svchost.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Host Process for Windows Services |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe |
| Original name: | svchost.exe.mui |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Expiration date: | Friday, June 13, 2014 |
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of svchost.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Services
This is the shared Service Host controller that runs some of the following shared services:
- Service name 'sina_live_deamon'
- Service name 'Журнал событий Windows'
All file variations of svchost.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
77.75% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
22.25% |
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Distribution by country
Austria installs about 39.50% of Host Process for Windows Services.
