Estimated safety rating

svchost.exe may be a dangerous application, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers many of the "probable danger" flags detailed in this document. It is yet unknown if svchost.exe is malware or not that doesn't harm your PC. Please be careful with this application.

Executable file path

Usually, the default name and folder where this program is stored is
C:\Windows\svchost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is b397efc0ce2a8def5903e0868ab97851.

Is running as a service

This program is set up as a Windows service. This means it operates on your PC in background, usually without displaying anything to you. Most Windows services are legit programs, which provide useful features to other programs or to the Windows Operating System.

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a x64 executable. It uses the full capacity of modern CPUs.

File description

The description present in the program is ????-??????? ??? ????? Windows.

File version

File version extracted from the file 6.3.9600.16384.

Copyright

Legal copyright notice © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved..

Potentially dangerous functions

Some insecure features of the Operating System have been used, such as functions for intercepting the keyboard. We recommend you to be very careful regarding this program.

Digitally signed

A digital signature is missing from this program. The publisher did not bother to sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have an uninstall command stored in registry.