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What is p2phost.exe? Collaboration Host?

Vendor:      Microsoft Corporation
Product:     Microsoft
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Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

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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: p2phost.exe -
This is the collaboration host (the process name is p2phost.exe, and it is a user mode process). p2phost.exe is responsible for listening for incoming invitations, and for popping up UI asking the user to authorize the launch of an application. In addition, you would be able to opt in and out of people near me publication.

p2phost.exe is a user process, and is shared by all applications. The idea is that the list of people located near me is common across all applications. So, instead of having every application maintain this cache, p2phost.exe does it for all applications.

p2phost.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.


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p2phost.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: 0.01%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 12 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
p2phost.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x0b729dbae22bceacb1fa39b19748ebdc 2/5/2015 6:43:00 PM Unknown 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) Collaboration Host 187 KB
2 Status 0x32dee5d6b7e38027723972192ceede88 8/18/2014 1:20:00 AM Unknown Unknown Collaboration Host 148 KB
3 Status 0xd48cbcf8a14eebbe0652e973a570570e 1/30/2012 8:22:00 PM Unknown 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) Collaboration Host 187 KB
4 Status 0xe57e3f9119d90d007839d63015b653a7 9/22/2009 7:15:00 PM Unknown Unknown Collaboration Host 148 KB
5 Status 0x2b90a9267c207d0116fa2852e8a9e2fd 9/17/2009 12:54:00 PM Unknown Unknown Collaboration Host 148 KB
6 Status 0x199c977ebe68694b697c3621ae1351e3 8/8/2009 4:58:00 AM Unknown Unknown Collaboration Host 148 KB
7 Status 0x0a3f70db21607df899d70326ba1fb982 5/15/2008 8:27:00 PM Unknown 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) Collaboration Host 187 KB
8 Status 0x21fa7891352cbf15ea9e9b26da862493 12/31/2007 Unknown 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) Collaboration Host 187 KB


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