Only allow access if downloading from or Windows Update. NET Framework (my ocurrance happened during the installation of version 1.1). This program is required access the internet, in order to have a sucessful installation of Microsoft. The dllhost.exe file is a trustworthy file from Microsoft. Other times, a malware program may run, or inject, its service into an already running dllhost.exe 32 COM Surrogate process.
Known file sizes on Windows 10/11/7 are 7,168 bytes (46 of all occurrences), 19,256 bytes and 31 more variants. Because dllhost.exe 32 COM Surrogate is a common process in the Task Manager, malware programs sometimes mask themselves by running under the same process name of dllhost.exe 32 COM Surrogate. However, it’s fairly safe to say that if it’s connecting to Microsoft, it’s not a big deal, but then again, why is that needed? There could be many reasons, however if everything is working fine I would recommend to just keep blocking it. Dllhost.exe is located in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. Well, dllhost.exe manages DLL based applications so there aren’t many reasons why it should want to access the net. I’m inclined to continue blocking dllhost.exe’s access to the internet, but I am wondering if there might be some long range consequences I’m not aware of? The command switch-less dllhost.exe instance is still running. Ran ESET Online scanner Ran Microsoft Safety Scanner Booted to Safe Mode. Although 8 of the attempts were to contact my DNS host the other 5 attempts were to contact 3 different Microsoft entities within the. Some background information on dllhost. Maxxwire post:1: The Comodo firewall presented a popup which asked if I wanted to allow dllhost.exe to access the internet and after I blocked it the Firewall blocked 13 more attempts over the next 10 hours. For detection engineers interested in learning more, this article is a good reference.
DLLHOST EXE .DLL
dll or other application-type files for anything suspicious. What is dllhost.exe dllhost.exe is a surrogate executable designed to launch COM server components in a dedicated process so that if the component crashes, it wouldn’t take other COM server components down with it. Although 8 of the attempts were to contact my DNS host the other 5 attempts were to contact 3 different Microsoft entities within the ranges of the following IPs according to the reverse DNS lookups I did… For each of the DLLHOST.EXE processes, I've reviewed the DLLs and Handles view in Process Explorer for any.
The Comodo firewall presented a popup which asked if I wanted to allow dllhost.exe to access the internet and after I blocked it the Firewall blocked 13 more attempts over the next 10 hours.
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