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
There are 21 versions of svchost.exe in the wild, the latest version being 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). It is started as a Windows Service called 'WwanSvc'. It is run under the context of the LOCAL SERVICE account. The average file size is about 26.07 KB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to Microsoft Corporation by Microsoft Corporation. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0006% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 21.62 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 42.23 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 48.42 KB per minute for reads and 14.92 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:
Drivers
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.
