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<blockquote data-quote="hotpepper78" data-source="post: 288640" data-attributes="member: 29901"><p>argus: Thank you for all of your help thus far. I am attaching the requested log. I opened Task Manager a few more times and saw "dllhost.exe COM Surrogate" however, I do not see "dllhost *32 COM Surrogate." I can usually get it to display in Task Manager as soon as I open Internet Explorer. It does not stay in Task Manager very long (few seconds). Is it possible that this is a normal process (as opposed to dllhost.exe *32)? I also ran FRST again (log attached) after I ran Zoek. If you search the FRST log, it shows two instances of dllhost.exe. Here is an excerpt from the FRST log:</p><p>S3 COMSysApp; C:\Windows\system32\dllhost.exe [9728 2009-07-13] (Microsoft Corporation)</p><p>S3 COMSysApp; C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dllhost.exe [7168 2009-07-13] (Microsoft Corporation)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hotpepper78, post: 288640, member: 29901"] argus: Thank you for all of your help thus far. I am attaching the requested log. I opened Task Manager a few more times and saw "dllhost.exe COM Surrogate" however, I do not see "dllhost *32 COM Surrogate." I can usually get it to display in Task Manager as soon as I open Internet Explorer. It does not stay in Task Manager very long (few seconds). Is it possible that this is a normal process (as opposed to dllhost.exe *32)? I also ran FRST again (log attached) after I ran Zoek. If you search the FRST log, it shows two instances of dllhost.exe. Here is an excerpt from the FRST log: S3 COMSysApp; C:\Windows\system32\dllhost.exe [9728 2009-07-13] (Microsoft Corporation) S3 COMSysApp; C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dllhost.exe [7168 2009-07-13] (Microsoft Corporation) [/QUOTE]
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