What is the "rundll32.exe" ? Variant 530682

Our database contains 2924 different files for filename rundll32.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the rundll32.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name rundll32.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Run a DLL as an App. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 2 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process rundll32.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Run a DLL as an App
Version:: 5.1.2600.2180
MD5:: da285490bbd8a1d0ce6623577d5ba1ff
SHA1:: c466b4f4c2600fd62fbe943d8049afd0f6606f48
SHA256:: a46e1537ae3f1752822d72c6c0870fed8afee396c6c1bacc3ea781decd5dcddc
Size:: 33280
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
avast! Antivirus	2016-06-23 04:59:07
Panda Free Antivirus	2016-04-30 18:40:12
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.2	2016-03-22 06:08:36
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2014	2016-03-05 12:22:46
Kaspersky Internet Security	2016-01-29 02:19:44
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise	2016-01-20 06:26:16
AntiVir Desktop	2015-11-04 18:08:36
AVG Internet Security	2015-10-01 16:37:47
COMODO Antivirus	2015-09-22 23:25:44

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Is the Process "rundll32.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 "rundll32.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.

91% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
9% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

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SAFErating from user zulian for file C:\Windows\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE
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Reviews for different files with filename "C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe"

SAFErating from user DRUID for file C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe (Variant: 46593877)
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SAFErating from user Part for file C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe (Variant: 40509763)
Part of Windows
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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe (Variant: 19517059)
rundll32.exe is in most cases system process which hosts 3rd party libraries. This program can be used for load and start of any DLL file. You must check DLL files running in address space of rundll32.exe process to determine safety of the process. Don't know how to check file manually? You can use our freeware tool System Explorer.
"Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Millennium Edition (Me) contains two command-line utility programs named Rundll.exe and Rundll32.exe that allow you to invoke a function exported from a DLL, either 16-bit or 32-bit. However, Rundll and Rundll32 programs do not allow you to call any exported function from any DLL..." - see the basics about this executable on Windows pages on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/164787
SAFErating from user 2472567@mail.ru for file C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe