What is the "explorer.exe" ? Variant 1039357

Our database contains 22581 different files for filename explorer.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the explorer.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name explorer.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Explorer. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process explorer.exe.

explorer.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Windows Explorer
Version:
6.1.7601.17567
MD5:
8b88ebbb05a0e56b7dcc708498c02b3e
SHA1:
cea0890d4b99bae3f635a16dae71f69d137027b9
SHA256:
9e1ec8b43a88e68767fd8fed2f38e7984357b3f4186d0f907e62f8b6c9ff56ad
Size:
2616320
Directory:
C:\Windows
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-09-07 23:43:34
Ad-Aware Antivirus2016-09-07 23:04:28
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition2016-09-07 22:30:40
avast! Antivirus2016-09-07 21:40:24
Panda Free Antivirus2016-09-07 19:54:19
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 6.02016-09-07 19:18:52
Avast Antivirus2016-09-07 19:12:17
ESET Smart Security 9.0.375.12016-09-07 17:16:31
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise2016-09-07 12:46:15
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 9.0.386.12016-09-07 12:18:47
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

Is the Process "explorer.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
100% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Our final rating for this file is Safe. Final rating is based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "explorer.exe" is used by Microsoft Windows System files. Many threats uses filenames of System Processes to camouflage itself. You should consider suspected any file which uses system filename and is not stored in system directory or has invalid file version information. Correct system file contains full file version information from Microsoft.

98% of reviewed files with different MD5 are marked as Safe .
93% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
7% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

User Reviews of the "explorer.exe"

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