Generic Host Process For Win32

I use GoToMyPC program to connect from remote computer to host computer.
When I connect I see this popup on my Zone Alarm program.

Do you want to allow Generic Host Process for Win32
services to accept connection from the Internet?

Source I.P.
Application is svchost.exe

Should I accept it or refuse it?


Because it (GoToMyPC program) still works even after I refuse it.

The reason why I don't want to accept it.

Because in my Windows XP Home Edition, AVG program found before that
Nachi virus has infected svchost.exe here-

c:\windows\system32\drivers\svhost.exe

It is in avg vault at the moment.

What should I do?

Thanks.

Bun Mui

 

Then it seems you can safely refuse it.

That is not the same as the program ZA is telling you about. One is
svchost.exe, the other is svhost.exe. This is no reason to disallow
svchost.exe from accessing the internet. (Not to mention that if
svchost.exe is infected, AVG should pick it up when it goes into
action.)

There is an interesting (yawn) discussion of ZA and svchost.exe here:
http://forums.zonelabs.com/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=security&message.id=4972

Allow it, or disallow it, probably makes very little difference. I
would suggest always allowing it to access the internet. It's a
legit Windows system file. But whichever you do, you might want to
tell ZA to stop asking you about it.

Cheers,
dan