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Enable svchost.exe mitigation options

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10

Registry

HKLM System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SCMConfig

Value name: EnableSvchostMitigationPolicy

Enabled: EnableSvchostMitigationPolicy = 1

Disabled: EnableSvchostMitigationPolicy = 0

Description

This policy setting enables process mitigation options on svchost.exe processes. If you enable this policy setting, built-in system services hosted in svchost.exe processes will have stricter security policies enabled on them. This includes a policy requiring all binaries loaded in these processes to be signed by microsoft, as well as a policy disallowing dynamically-generated code. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, these stricter security settings will not be applied.