What is the "smss.exe" ? Variant 637984

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 NT Session Manager. 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 smss.exe.

smss.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Windows NT Session Manager
Version:
5.1.2600.5512
MD5:
5f816c1f539266d2d4c78694239da0b5
SHA1:
406503e95e8bf9b387b201aac141520e5f266ff4
SHA256:
10bfccf4effc3813a563d528dc5464827bef10ae21d6b9c1138930228e7047d1
Size:
50688
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
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
Panda Free Antivirus2016-09-07 23:19:16
Panda Antivirus Pro 20162016-09-07 22:57:52
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition2016-09-07 18:39:01
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall Antivirus2016-09-07 17:15:23
Avast Antivirus2016-09-07 07:24:30
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 20122016-09-07 04:06:13
Norton Internet Security2016-09-07 01:03:24
360 Total Security2016-09-06 20:43:29
Sophos Anti-Virus2016-09-06 20:42:44
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-09-06 07:03:39
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

Is the Process "smss.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 "smss.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.

80% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
20% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

User Reviews of the "smss.exe"

  • SAFErating from user 3hlav (Variant: 637984)

    Windows NT Session Manager, Windows XP Pro SP3 32 bit

  • SAFErating from user UPieper