What are the normal reasons for taskhost.exe needing to request an outgoing internet access please?
Does no one know?! ???
Thanks for the suggestion Eric. Interesting. I will go over to Wilders this evening and see if I can dig out more.
I carried out 2 scans with rescue disks, Bitdefender and Kaspersky, and they did not come up with anything interesting, only some FPs that CIS had already reported, but I am checking these out further.
As I reported on another thread, I have some other suspicions about what may be happening, highly speculative and unproven, and I need to troubleshoot more. It’s connected with Reimage which I have used a few times and which replaces various system files if found to be damaged. It replaced rather a lot of files on a relatively new system, so I suspect it may be doing more than replacing just damaged files, and I want to understand exactly what it is doing.
In the meantime I will keep an eye out on taskhost.exe and when it requests outbound I will use Process Explorer and Wireshark to see deeper.