What is the "smss.exe" ? Variant 502173

Our database contains 1129 different files for filename smss.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the smss.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name smss.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Session Manager. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process smss.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows Session Manager
Version:: 6.0.6002.18005
MD5:: c17704ea5b0f83d78f1377075ffe1c89
SHA1:: e731f0fba53eaa356d23b801a68ced49f20cfab4
SHA256:: b38bce4d49428a5d6ffc87d363f8b3c88695af57ba3de0c9837fb5eefa571b0d
Size:: 75264
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows Vista
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
avast! Antivirus	2016-07-22 20:22:37
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-07-17 07:03:32
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise	2016-07-17 07:03:32
McAfee VirusScan	2016-07-14 02:12:11
Avira Desktop	2016-07-03 10:28:11
AVG Internet Security	2016-05-21 20:43:26
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition	2016-05-14 13:06:50
360 Total Security	2016-04-23 00:28:50
ESET Smart Security 8.0	2016-03-02 10:59:05

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

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Reviews of all smss.exe variants

Reviews for different files with filename "C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe"

SAFErating from user Berkut598 for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe (Variant: 40746619)
Ok
SAFErating from user Alex for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe
SAFErating from user Richard Soukup for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe (Variant: 51670)
smss.exe is in most cases the Windows Session Manager subsystem which is responsible for starting the user session or launching the winlogon.exe and csrss.exe processes and setting system variables. smss.exe is started by system thread and waits for either winlogon.exe or csrss.exe to end. If this happens "normally", the system shuts down. In other case, smss.exe hangs the system (stop responding).
Session Manager Subsystem, or smss.exe, is a component of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and successor operating systems. It is executed during the startup process of Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista." - check more on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Manager_Subsystem