Taskhostw.exe suddenly uses large amounts of memory randomly

[AoiMinase]

Taskhostw.exe uses high memory and this happened just recently, yesterday the laptop was working fine. But now sometimes the laptop suddenly began to slow down and by opening task manager to see the culprit It was taskhostw.exe, the memory usage was up to 800,000kThis seemed highly unusual since msmpeng.exe is the only one that I know uses high memory which was only 140,000k+ But taskhostw.exe suddenly using tons of memory out of no whereseemed suspicious, however from time to time taskhostw.exe would stop using high memory and go back to its original 20,000K but it would go skyrocket back to

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