Com Surrogate What is it

[Rambo3456]

What the hack is com surrgate is it a virus also it always closes when i open task manager

[Arcanekitten]

6 minutes ago, AddisonHawke said:

What the hack is com surrgate is it a virus also it always closes when i open task manager

I have the exact same question and the same problem but COM Surrogate is also a windows program but some virus uses it as camouflage so I just ignored it and assumed it was a windows thing.

[Rambo3456]

Just now, Arcanekitten said:

I have the exact same question and the same problem but COM Surrogate is also a windows program but some virus uses it as camouflage so I just ignored it and assumed it was a windows thing.

i just checked on 4 different computer looks like its normal

thank you for you help

[NinjaJc01]

COM ports are serial ports. It's used for a lot of really old stuff. It's just part of windows.

[Nostalgia_Realm]

I'm sorry but I suggest you to use a search engine more often:

 

The COM Surrogate is a fancy name for Sacrificial process for a COM object that is run outside of the process that requested it. Explorer uses the COM Surrogate when extracting thumbnails, for example. If you go to a folder with thumbnails enabled, Explorer will fire off a COM Surrogate and use it to compute the thumbnails for the documents in the folder. It does this because Explorer has learned not to trust thumbnail extractors; they have a poor track record for stability. Explorer has decided to absorb the performance penalty in exchange for the improved reliability resulting in moving these dodgy bits of code out of the main Explorer process. When the thumbnail extractor crashes, the crash destroys the COM Surrogate process instead of Explorer.