The process hostedagent.exe is known by the service name Hosted Agent Service, and a part of the security program called Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services, which is proudly developed by Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services is a type of Enterprise-class security solution for Windows computers and laptops, that is created and used to protect business against viruses, worms, spyware, malware, Trojan horse, spam, fraud, malicious websites, and other PC security threats that can affect the growth and development of a certain company or organization. As a component of this important and vital software, hostedagent.exe is a Windows process that is considered essential, and recommended to run in the background. This means that the file must not be terminated or stopped, because it has a special function or feature that enables the software Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services. It may be enough to disable the software, especially if other modules bundled within it are relying on the file hostedagent.exe for execution.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services, 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 hostedagent.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 hostedagent.exe, belongs to, in this case Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services