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What is comhost.exe? comHost?

Vendor:      Symantec
Product:     Firewall Component
Vendor Website:      http://www.symantec.com
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

Process is Bad PC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is bad.
Process is questionablePC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that the safety of this process is questionable.
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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: comHost.exe - Part of Norton internet Security firewall by Symantec.

comhost.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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comhost.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
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Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.00%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 1 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
comhost.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x75a69ca9998577f8b2be8695040e5df4 1/18/2012 7:21:00 PM Unknown 3.0.0.71 comHost 54 KB
2 Status 0x3b38f3defd61db294421993f969bc88f 6/25/2011 12:26:00 PM Unknown 1.2.0.28 comHost 48 KB
3 Status 0xfbd21c7eddb3949143a7758595944e89 7/4/2010 5:49:00 AM Unknown 9.1.1.7 comHost 44 KB
4 Status 0x9d50faf8bffe9629ef0e97858c4805d9 3/17/2010 3:23:00 AM Unknown 1.0.0.142 comHost 47 KB
5 Status 0xd2ecb999bc36aa8d4524068efac5ec9d 2/14/2009 5:29:00 PM Unknown 9.0.5.5 comHost 44 KB
6 Status 0x7ce352882828c12dd7632b172253a02c 1/16/2009 11:52:00 PM Unknown 1.1.0.9 comHost 48 KB
7 Status 0x7f4bb0b76d8d03579148bb0e95e92138 12/31/2007 Unknown 9.0.3.4 comHost 44 KB
8 Status 0x74d1457916d5aba84d0b26ba1bbdd498 12/31/2007 Unknown 9.1.0.33 comHost 44 KB


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