dllhost.exe loads and unloads almost every minute...

[TheMoon]

Does anyone know why dllhost.exe loads and unloads practically every minute?

What is it doing, and how the heck do i stop it ?

I use the old windows xp utopia sounds, and i set it up so load and open programs have a sound associated with them.

Every minute it loads up dllhost.exe and then closes it almost right away.

Another thing which bothers me, when i click on a file one, or a folder, it will sometimes do the same thing, loads up dllhost.exe.

Pretty effing annoying and not needed if you ask me.

But any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Also the Description According to Process Explorer is "Com Surrogate"

 

[WindowsStar]

Sounds like you may have a Virus. I would scan your machine with a good virus scanner and then for malware.

Malwarebytes

 

[TheMoon]

I have completely scanned my system with adaware and a few other virus scanners i know of and they have turned up nothing.

However, what i find extremely weird, now that i installed ad-ware for the first time, Dll Host is not loading no more? :|

It literally just stopped after i restarted my computer from installing ad-aware, its not loading dllhost.exe no more....

wth?

 

[Aphelion]

HEre's some information on what Dllhost and "com surrogate" function as.

Dale Preston's Web Log: What is COM Surrogate?

Are you sure ad-aware didn't find anything?

Ap

 

[TheMoon]

Now that i think about it, could it be that dllhost.exe, was checking for a virus scanner the whole time?

It stopped loading up once i installed a virus scanner.....

Ad-aware is still scanning my hard drives but it finshed with c:\ a good hour ago.

Has not found a single problem.

Still dllhost.exe has not loaded. The only thing i can figure is that it was windows 7 checking for a virus scanner....

I wish xp had 64bit support with support for all my other old programs, i would so easly go back to xp then have to put up with windows 7 sigh... Why cant microsoft just program good operating systems?

 

[logicearth]

dllhost.exe exists in Windows XP, okay. As it name implies it host DLLs for applications. Whatever application you installed is the cause. Is this even really a problem? Is your computer melting? Why is dllhost.exe bothering you so?

 

[TheMoon]

dllhost.exe exists in Windows XP, okay. As it name implies it host DLLs for applications. Whatever application you installed is the cause. Is this even really a problem? Is your computer melting? Why is dllhost.exe bothering you so?

Because it kept loading up every 30 seconds?

Did you read any of my posts / replys in this thread.

 

[logicearth]

...Because it kept loading up every 30 seconds?

Clearly, you didn't read mine. Is this even really a problem? Or are you just manufacturing a problem cause you are bored?

 

[TheMoon]

Oh okay. Well i didnt know if it was a problem, thats why i was asking. Had the virus scanner not fixed it. I would have wanted to figure out what was causing it to load.

It has however stopped. It has to of been something checking to see if there was a virus scanner.