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I can't find any useful information to get what is this process that runs in my computer:
nalpeiron
I haven't installed anything tied to that name and google only brings up a licensing company (I certainly don't have any of their product).
Can it be a malware? or is it a legit process which should be there?
I have Windows 7 Professional, fully updated. I tried Spybot, but it didn't find it.
I've heard about this site and this is my first question here, I hope you can help.
I've written a lengthy explanation of what this process is, and how to figure out what each one of them does.
The bottom line is that svchost is a process that contains all of the Windows services. Since there are many Windows services, there are also many instances running.
What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running?
The easiest way to check on these is to use Process Explorer:
It's basically a file system and registry 'wrapper' that redirects file write attempts if the user does not have the correct write permissions, see the Wikipedia article about UAC for more information:
Applications written with the assumption that the user will be running with administrator privileges experienced problems in earlier versions of Windows when run from limited user accounts, often because they attempted to write to machine-wide or system directories (such as Program Files) or registry keys (notably HKLM). UAC attempts to alleviate this using File and Registry Virtualization, which redirects writes (and subsequent reads) to a per-user location within the user's profile.
For example, if an application attempts to write to a directory such as "C:\Program Files\appname\settings.ini" to which the user does not have write permission, the write will be redirected to "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\appname\settings.ini". The redirection feature is only provided for non-elevated 32-bit applications, and only if they do not include a manifest that requests specific privileges.
Best Answer
It is not dangerous at all, it's a licensing component (copy protection) for some software like Adobe Photoshop etc. It may also be installed by games like GTA IV.