Why are the two Svchost.exe options set to Off by default?

[Supersnake]

Marcos or any other knowledgeable readers,
Can you set us straight on the check boxes for svchost.exe in "Web Browsers" and in "Active Mode" ? Since they were both defaulted to off can you tell me if there are any drawbacks on enabling them? Thanks!

Haven't located any discussions on this matter other than on a forum for Outpost firewall users who are running NOD 3.0 and I do not use a software firewall - am using a D-Link router. http://www.outpostfirewall.com/forum/showthread.php?p=158263

[ASpace]

{QUOTE-> Marcos or any other knowledgeable readers,
Can you set us straight on the check boxes for svchost.exe in "Web Browsers" and in "Active Mode" ? Since they were both defaulted to off can you tell me if there are any drawbacks on enabling them? Thanks! <-QUOTE}


They appeared there in this list because they have generated some http traffic which was scanned by the applications . They don't need any checks

[aieie]

Good morning everybody :)

I made svchost.exe actively scanned by the http scan component and experienced no problems so far.

Since it's used for almost everything that goes out/in, is it dangerous, or a waste of scan time, to leave things this way or can be a useful scanning if no problems arise?

Thanks in advance

Best Regards

[Marcos]

I'm not aware that svchost.exe uses HTTP communication so marking it as a web browser or setting it to higher efficienciency mode should have no effect.

[MasterTB]

{QUOTE-> I'm not aware that svchost.exe uses HTTP communication so marking it as a web browser or setting it to higher efficienciency mode should have no effect. <-QUOTE}

Svchost is the responsable for Automatic Updates and DNS requests among other things, it uses 80 and 443 on a regular basis.
I have main set up as a web browser but not in Active mode since I get an error on Windows Update.