generic host on zone alarm???

[thebigelk]

on my zone alarm, there is a program that is called,"generic host process for win32 services" it acts as a server. what is this and what does it actually do???

[lewis]

Try changing the allowances to question mark to find out when it actually tries to access the net.

I have no idea what it is.

[Roody]

i've gotten that myself, not sure what it is actually. guess i should have asked also

[thebigelk]

anyone else know what this does????

[greEd]

generic host process for win32 services is connected to svchost.exe, it's a service for running/hosting a number of programs.

Read more about svchost.exe here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q250320)