The process asghost.exe is also known as the Global Virtual Card Host and it is owned by Cognizance or Bioscrypt. The Global Virtual Card Host is a security control process, which is associated with certain Credential/Access Managers for hardware that is provided by Cognizance; it is now acquired by L-1 Identity Solutions (which is usually OEM fingerprint readers). The process is not a Windows system file and the program has no visible window. It can be uninstalled with the Control Panel and is a non-system process. It is a non-essential process, however, it is recommended that it should not be terminated unless it is suspected to cause problems for the user’s computer system. The process has a technical security rating of 25% dangerous, making it relatively safe to use. It does not present any potential harm to the user’s PC system, however, precautions should still be practiced. It can be useful for the user to maintain in his or her system as it can provide security control.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. asghost.exe. is used by Global Virtual Card Host, If you shut down asghost.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop asghost.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Global Virtual Card Host, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed asghost.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Global Virtual Card Host, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if asghost.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that asghost.exe, belongs to, in this case Global Virtual Card Host