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Infected email attachments, malicious online advertisements, social engineering, software 'cracks'. Trojans are designed to stealthily infiltrate the victim's computer and remain silent, and thus no particular symptoms are clearly visible on an infected machine.
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Threat Summary: Nameįalse positive detection, Trojan, Password-stealing virus, Banking malware, Spywareĭetection Names (malicious file which disguises as svchost.exe)Īvast (Win32:Malware-gen), BitDefender (Trojan.GenericKD.32016925), ESET-NOD32 (A Variant Of Generik.EAOKAT), Kaspersky (), Full List ( VirusTotal) If you have any reason to believe that the running svchost.exe process is not a part of Windows (it is perhaps named svhosts.exe, is not in the correct location, etc.), remove it as soon as possible. They use these techniques to generate as much revenue as possible, often causing financial/data loss, problems with privacy, and so on, for unsuspecting users. They attempt to infect computers with programs that help them to proliferate additional malware (such as ransomware), steal personal details (including banking information), control computers remotely, and so on. Typically, cyber criminals disguise high-risk malware, for example, malicious programs such as Netwire RAT. Service Host's location can be checked by right-clicking any of its processes in Task Manager and selecting the "Open file location" from the drop-down menu.Īdditionally, malicious processes disguised as official and legitimate when running in Task Manager often have a graphical icon beside them, when in fact the icon should be a default system icon. If the filename is incorrect (for example, the file is named svhost.exe or svchosts.exe, this might also indicate a problem. If the svchost.exe is placed elsewhere, this indicates that it might be a virus. Typically, the svchost.exe file can be located in " %SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe" or " %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\svchost.exe". It is used to group/allocate services so that they use less system resources. Svchost.exe is an important part of the operating system that hosts various services. In many cases, however, cyber criminals disguise malicious files/processes using names similar to those of legitimate processes. Typically, there is more than one Service Host process running at once, since separate processes handle separate groups of services.įor example, one svchost.exe process might be dealing with services relating to network services, whilst another might be dealing with services relating to remote procedure calls, and so on. Svchost.exe is the generic name of a legitimate Microsoft Windows process that can be found running in the Task Manager.