Zone Alarm/ Firewall Question.

In Zone Alarm Firewall's program list , I have two programs listed as being aconnected to the internet. They are called "Generic host process for win 32 services".

Does anyone know how I find out what these programs are, and if they are malware of some sort.

Many thanks. Headtime (Wed 21:00 22/Jun/05)

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kempie		(Wed 21:32 22/Jun/05) The GHP for Win32 is related to the DNS service used by Windows to cache DNS results locally and as such is not malware, although you may find you do not need to allow it a connection to the internet. That said, only one instance of this should be running. Check which files both services are pointing to in the Entry Detail in ZoneAlarm. If the second one is rogue it could possibly be bad. A full discussion here
Headtime		(Thu 00:02 23/Jun/05) Question Author Cheers Kempie, not sure what GHP stands for, but your answer is very enlightening. Disabling the Generic Host Process entry in Zone Alarm, means no web pages will load. So I'm presuming it's benign. Still not sure why there are two entries for it. But thanks for your reply.

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