What is the "explorer.exe" ? Variant 520457

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:
6.0.2900.5634
MD5:
2bb75b7f548d82a099125d0c5971de7d
SHA1:
185175ea4de39ee61909577a6a93ed3d8f354377
SHA256:
7a0d86aa7e718e1f9df8afbee9672d00ecf8e3da4f258b5accd12a343132fea0
Size:
1033728
Directory:
C:\Windows
Operating System:
Windows XP
Occurence:
High oc2

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall Antivirus2016-09-07 17:15:23
360 Total Security2016-09-06 20:43:29
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-09-06 07:03:39
COMODO Antivirus2016-09-03 22:07:46
avast! Antivirus2016-09-03 20:18:04
ESET Smart Security 9.0.402.12016-09-03 16:20:09
Panda Free Antivirus2016-08-29 12:05:06
Avira Antivirus2016-08-29 07:12:15
Norton Internet Security2016-08-27 18:20:11
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition2016-08-22 19:09:59
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"

  • SAFErating from user farzad