My Data Execution Prevention started shutting down the Generic Host Process
for Win32 Services for no apparent reason recently. Apparently the GHP is an
important system process; it restarts by itself and then the DEP crashes it
again. dialog boxes reappear repeatedly, so the process likely restarts
itself (in similar fashion to some critical processes like svchost, etc.) and
then gets crashed by the DEP in a repitant style.I'm almost certain that the
Generic Host Process is a legitimate system process. I don't understand why
DEP would disable it; it never has in the past. No viruses were found on the
machine when scanned.

The computer APPEARS to work okay (other than that related error dialog
boxes always stay ontop of the screen and get in the way) it basically says
the Generic Host Process has encountered an error and needs to close. we're
sorry for the inconvenience. But the DEP is causing it, as i stated above.

GHP crash wrote:
> My Data Execution Prevention started shutting down the Generic Host Process
> for Win32 Services for no apparent reason recently. Apparently the GHP is an
> important system process; it restarts by itself and then the DEP crashes it
> again. Dialog boxes reappear repeatedly, so the process likely restarts
> itself (in similar fashion to some critical processes like svchost, etc.) and
> then gets crashed by the DEP in a repitant style. I'm almost certain that the
> Generic Host Process is a legitimate system process. I don't understand why
> DEP would disable it; it never has in the past. No viruses were found on the
> machine when scanned.
>
> The computer APPEARS to work okay (other than that related error dialog
> boxes always stay ontop of the screen and get in the way) it basically says
> the Generic Host Process has encountered an error and needs to close. We're
> sorry for the inconvenience. But the DEP is causing it, as I stated above.

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--
Joe =o)

Many programs and services hook into svchost.exe. One of them is causing the
DEP errors. What was the last hardware or software change you made? You can
also use ProcessExplorer to find what processes are running in each instance
of svchost. Maybe seeing what is running will jog your memory as to what was
recently installed.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"GHP crash" <GHP (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C39DA408-8E21-4C77-B18D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> My Data Execution Prevention started shutting down the Generic Host
> Process
> for Win32 Services for no apparent reason recently. Apparently the GHP is
> an
> important system process; it restarts by itself and then the DEP crashes
> it
> again. dialog boxes reappear repeatedly, so the process likely restarts
> itself (in similar fashion to some critical processes like svchost, etc.)
> and
> then gets crashed by the DEP in a repitant style.I'm almost certain that
> the
> Generic Host Process is a legitimate system process. I don't understand
> why
> DEP would disable it; it never has in the past. No viruses were found on
> the
> machine when scanned.
>
> The computer APPEARS to work okay (other than that related error dialog
> boxes always stay ontop of the screen and get in the way) it basically
> says
> the Generic Host Process has encountered an error and needs to close.
> we're
> sorry for the inconvenience. But the DEP is causing it, as i stated above.