What is the "taskeng.exe" ? Variant 18278432

Our database contains 489 different files for filename taskeng.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the taskeng.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name taskeng.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Task Scheduler Engine. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 3 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process taskeng.exe.

taskeng.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Task Scheduler Engine
Version:
6.2.9200.16420
MD5:
38175536133bdc9324910582250cb8dd
SHA1:
38d5dbe2db4603c0413c5d23dd35a78652b3eb15
SHA256:
1116d08baddc34b647d587750697444dac76ae1068a43c4812577a2fd44266a7
Size:
545280
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
Norton Security2016-09-07 09:12:23
Baidu Antivirus2016-09-07 09:12:23
Avast Antivirus2016-09-05 09:53:45
Avira Antivirus2016-09-03 21:25:11
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition2016-09-02 18:04:18
Kaspersky Internet Security2016-09-02 09:30:58
Windows Defender2016-08-29 10:14:57
McAfee Anti-Virus a Antispyware2016-08-24 17:18:32
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

Is the Process "taskeng.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 "taskeng.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.

92% of reviewed files with different MD5 are marked as Safe .
8% of reviewed files with different MD5 are marked as Threat

User Reviews of the "taskeng.exe"

  • SAFErating from user hsmiths@me.com for file C:\Windows\System32\taskeng.exe

  • SAFErating from user rots for file C:\Windows\System32\taskeng.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskeng.exe (Variant: 14571243)

    There are two Windows system components cooperating together - Task Scheduler and Task Scheduler engine. The cooperation between these two is that Task Scheduler engine performs the actions scheduled through the Task Scheduler. This executable - taskeng.exe - is the Task Scheduler Engine. System user or system itself can prepare a task and schedule it for a specified time, when the time is reached the task is executed. Check more on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc727197(v=ws.10).aspx