What is the "osk.exe" ?

Our database contains 281 different files for filename osk.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name osk.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 20 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process osk.exe.

In most cases this file is the main part of the Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard application from Microsoft :

"Type without using the keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard) : Instead of relying on the physical keyboard to type and enter data, you can use On-Screen Keyboard. On-Screen Keyboard displays a visual keyboard with all the standard keys. You can select keys using the mouse or another pointing device, or you can use a single key or group of keys to cycle through the keys on the screen."

Check more info for this application on MS pages : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/type-without-keyboard#type-without-keyboard=windows-vista

osk.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "osk.exe"

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard
Version:
6.1.7600.16385
MD5:
b918311a8e59fb8ccf613a110024deba
SHA1:
a9a64a53d2d1c023d058cfe23db4c9b4fbe59d1b
SHA256:
e1f7612086c2d01f15f2e74f1c22bc6abeb56f18e6bda058edce8d780aebb353
Size:
692736
Directory:
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-osk_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_06b1c513739fb828
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

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

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93% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
Latest new variant of the file with name "osk.exe" was discovered 4042 days ago. Our database contains 65 variants of the file "osk.exe" with final rating Safe and zero variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

User Reviews of the "osk.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "osk.exe"

  • THREATrating from user RAL for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 26067532)

    Keyboard hooked

  • SAFErating from user Majkl for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 26067532)

    On-Screen Keyboard

  • SAFErating from user Serge for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exeflag ru

  • SAFErating from user Goldberg for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exeflag ru

  • SAFErating from user BillR for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 26067532)

    I'm clueless why both Flor and SystemExplorer rate this as THREAT. July 2014 - Nov 2015 on Metascan-Online, in 5 checks the only threat rating is from Clam, once, since reversed. Currently VirusTotal and Jotti also give it a pass. So do 7 major AV vendors installed on systems in the past 3 weeks per SystemExplorer.

  • THREATrating from user Flor for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exeflag es

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 20169265)

    In most cases this file is the main part of the Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard application from Microsoft :
    "Type without using the keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard) : Instead of relying on the physical keyboard to type and enter data, you can use On-Screen Keyboard. On-Screen Keyboard displays a visual keyboard with all the standard keys. You can select keys using the mouse or another pointing device, or you can use a single key or group of keys to cycle through the keys on the screen."
    Check more info for this application on MS pages : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/type-without-keyboard#type-without-keyboard=windows-vista

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 503443)

    Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard for MS Windows,

  • SAFErating from user gevi2 for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe

  • SAFErating from user SadasPoeta for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe