mchost.exe
by Various
Endpoint Management
Summary
Management Console Host - hosts management console components for an IT management platform.
mchost.exe is the 444th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 14,905 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Common Files\mcafee\platform\core.
444th
most commonly executed Windows program
14,905
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Common Files\mcafee\platform\core100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 4f234cbe4aa125870835c78a35fbaf36ac32b397f2c26551abf4e14f82fe8ea350.49%
- 877e6db4e3c4fe1b3d7d1c7e90f774e5e888399d5e14f5014e018955527ec07545.94%
- 15383e52644903a90b2c5adcea060c97b4035c0b3692b81880096267a527929b2.03%
- a14aeec267399f2e66bdfd039234df79b43ece2368ebf89dc6cf78b4fb2229d71.14%
- c3f222120aa588a9cd96ab8c059ae9ba54058eb703071ae2970bdfde539f60ee0.27%
- d7740e718377273e7c6af4ab27e01d72a7367b3e60c0c3fb228083604a1a73450.14%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- mfemms.exe100%
Top Children
- mcsync.exe43.9%
- conhost.exe2.44%
- mcsvrcnt.exe2.44%
- mcupdutl.exe2.44%
- waithpwmiservice.exe2.44%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.