Check Point Software Technologies has developed a product which seeks to monitor browsing activities and to detect any malicious files that gets install in the computer system during downloads. This product is called ZoneAlarm ForceField or ZoneAlarm Toolbar or ZoneAlarm Browser Security. Swshex.dll is one of the files that the user installs along with the ZoneAlarm Forcefield software. ZoneAlarm Forcefield is a product that offers a user protection against viruses, malware, and spyware every time he or she logs on the Internet and browses different websites and downloads files. During web browsing and downloading activities, there are instances that the user is able to install malicious or suspicious files without his or her knowledge. ZoneAlarm Forcefield can resolve that problem. It provides a shadow file system where the files that are downloaded are isolated in one place. Then, the user can validate the files and can later on delete any potential threats.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as ZoneAlarm ForceField, 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 iswshex.dll. 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 iswshex.dll, belongs to, in this case ZoneAlarm ForceField