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generic host process for win 32 services Nospam 08-15-2007
Posted by Nospam on August 15, 2007, 9:13 am
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RE: generic host process for win 32 services

Zonealarm has this allowed to act as a server.

Should I allow it to act as a server or not?

Its just a normal home PC



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Posted by Mike on August 15, 2007, 12:33 pm
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>RE: generic host process for win 32 services
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>Zonealarm has this allowed to act as a server.
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>Should I allow it to act as a server or not?
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>Its just a normal home PC
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What happens when you click on the advice URL on the ZoneAlarm popup for
this event?
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Posted by no Spam on August 15, 2007, 6:02 pm
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>wrote
>>RE: generic host process for win 32 services
>>
>>Zonealarm has this allowed to act as a server.
>>
>>Should I allow it to act as a server or not?
>>
>>Its just a normal home PC
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>What happens when you click on the advice URL on the ZoneAlarm popup
>for this event?

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.


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Posted by on September 3, 2007, 12:19 pm
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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:

9 instances of svchost running
44 services running within the 9 instances

I do have a lot of items running.


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>RE: generic host process for win 32 services
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>Zonealarm has this allowed to act as a server.
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>Should I allow it to act as a server or not?
>
>Its just a normal home PC

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