Comments on: Vista, XviD and the COM Surrogate

By: ak

ak — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:20:49 +0000

i have tried for your given solution for as advance system setting for com surrogate but my problem has not not solved so give me other solution

By: bigbrothersprisonerofwar

bigbrothersprisonerofwar — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:46:52 +0000

do a scan system mechanic worked for me system cluter and startup programs as well as framentation

By: Abess

Abess — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:20:52 +0000

Hi i have the same problem with hostdll.exe surrogate, it uses over 60% CPU. i allways kill the process but it comes again and again, i don’t know how to do someone gates a solution? someone has solve this issue?
thankx in advance
my configuration : Intel core2 CPU T5200 1.60 GHZ, vista premium sp1, ram 1Gb

By: mark

mark — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:05:41 +0000

hello … for anyone … i got info on an axxo file it was xvid … i downloaded the latest xvid codec and that sorted it

By: Dennis Wright

Dennis Wright — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:11:39 +0000

OK, I buy that. Thank you, Matt.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:06:13 +0000

Instead of adding dllhost.exe to the DEP whitelist add xvidcore.dll and xvidvfw.dll located in the system32 folder. No more com surrogate errors

By: drew2287

drew2287 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:43:38 +0000

just for the record, a malware or trojan or something has overrun the dllhost app on my computer so it is possible and there is a risk to whitelisting all dll hosts, and it constantly refreshes my desktop to the point where it takes me 5 minutes to write a post like this one. spybot and norton are useless, i’m going to try kaspersky and see what happens but yes, Vista is the worst OS yet. Ubuntu all the way.

By: harry frida

harry frida — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:03:46 +0000

I have problems with suspected malware. The reason for the com surrogate is loading and running strange application ID’s and CLSID and in so doing is playing havoc with my registry.”to boot” moving and running strange applications in the background. I am now at a lost as to what to do?

By: John

John — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:04:44 +0000

Has anyone found a solution to the high CPU usage issue? I have a dual CPU machine that runs at 60% until I kill the COM Surrogate process. Shocking…

By: Leanne

Leanne — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:58:32 +0000

Argh…I am having this problem right now, it’s CPU usage is fluctuating between 45-60%
I don’t think it did this before, today I have been playing with some videos though from my phone on here but only in Quicktime, WMP and WMM…I don’t know if this is exactly the same problem but I’m googling around for a solution. =(