generic host process for win 32 services

In message at 14:13:40 on Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Nospam wrote

What happens when you click on the advice URL on the ZoneAlarm popup for this event?

In message , Mike writes

It only appears in the setup section, programs tab.

It doesn't pop up a window. It must have been there a while.

I have also noticed it is only in the trusted zone not the Internet zone.

So it is probably not as bad as I feared.

The Generic Host Process only provides services to other processes on the system. You will need something like PSTOOLS to look and see what that specific instance is hosting.

Look for svchost.exe and see. You should have several running hosting DNS client, DHCP client, Alerter, BITS, Server, Workstation and a number of other processes. Many of these are necessary and all run under the generic host process.

What you can look for is something you don't recognize / understand running within svcchost and then research that item to find out why it is running.

On my system, there are:

I do have a lot of items running.

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