Anyone ever heard of lshost.exe?

[Fusion]

[sponge]

[James S]

[angedelamort]

[Dave Johnston]

[chaos_vamp]

I'm not sure what it does, but it doesn't seem to be that important.

If I shut it off, the Internet runs faster and better. If I leave it on, I send a lot of information that I can't see leave my computer.

What I do know: It is part of the Windoze system. It does not return a value of any kind to the screen when I run it, even from the cmd line. It can run multiple incidences.

I speculate that is one of Micro$loth's Better Ideas that tries to compete with Unix/Linux, the prefix 'ls' tied to 'host' implies that it would list hosts.

I'd like to find out what it really does.

Kevin the Chaos Vampire

[Maf54]

The funny names you make for stuff are so cool!!1!11!1!11 How ever did you think of windoze???????//??//??

[Caesar]

Linux users are the most horribly biased people.

[sponge]

Actually, it's spyware/trojan. Damn you Mirco$uck for being so insecure as to allow my stupid self to run trojans!

[Jadam]

[Cameron]

[chuck]

I'm a mac and linux user, does that make me uber-biased? ya, it does.

[tomdon]

[Miracle]

[chaos_vamp]

lshost.exe is typically a hidden file that comes in with Micro$loth Windoze. I thought it was a Unix hijacking, but it's Micro$loth's own spyware. javascript:emoticon(':evil:')
Evil or Very Mad It is a LicenSe host watcher. I'm not exactly sure what it is or what it does, but it sends and receives licensing information, probably to Micro$loth itself regarding your system. So, if you have pirate Micro$loth junk onboard, you might consider dumping it and replacing it with a freeware version that's not written by anything in Redmond. Best yet, dump Winblows and replace any Winmodems, sound cards, and video cards with a hardware modem, SB16, or generic video card, add memory and a bigger hard disk, and run exclusively Linux or Unix. FreeBSD has good ratings, too, but 'nixes are still better. Unfortunately, I am stuck (temporarily) on this Dell laptop. It's fast, and I have it hacked well enough that it works for now.