What is the "osk.exe" ? Variant 560033

Our database contains 281 different files for filename osk.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the osk.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name osk.exe. This file belongs to product Betriebssystem Microsoft® Windows® and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Bildschirmtastatur. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process osk.exe.

Product:: Betriebssystem Microsoft® Windows®
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Bildschirmtastatur
Version:: 5.1.2600.5512
MD5:: a7f19f6eef3ad830ceda00c013464eab
SHA1:: 7a451b6d19ff0cf4ee49335f368f675667e4b63c
SHA256:: 7ad65f68117070435c4895524587572b81909e96baf273c4af6c597090e954e4
Size:: 216576
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: Medium

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Microsoft Security Essentials	2015-10-11 08:01:30
Avira Antivirus	2015-06-09 02:06:09
avast! Antivirus	2015-06-09 02:06:09
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2015	2015-03-24 01:35:47
Kaspersky Internet Security	2014-07-28 02:15:52
Avira Desktop	2014-07-19 18:46:36
Symantec Endpoint Protection	2013-09-15 17:18:14
Norton 360 Online	2013-06-27 21:33:42
BitDefender Internet Security v10	2013-06-25 19:53:45
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2013	2013-05-26 22:41:40

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

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Reviews for different files with filename "C:\Windows\System32\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.exe
SAFErating from user Goldberg for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe
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.exe
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