What is the "taskeng.exe" ? Variant 573788

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 2 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process taskeng.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Task Scheduler Engine
Version:: 6.1.7600.16385
MD5:: de5dacebd4c89834ec6d2c41c8643cda
SHA1:: 14a52395b41e26cde019bd87f3e7c676381cfc75
SHA256:: 87fb9fe2c32635c9831ed1ebd00999b80b91154a2f3584d31beb902a040f283b
Size:: 190464
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	2016-09-07 22:38:09
ESET Smart Security 9.0.349.0	2016-09-07 21:48:51
avast! Antivirus	2016-09-06 01:19:50
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0	2016-09-05 05:27:03
V3 Lite	2016-09-04 10:56:48
ESET Smart Security 8.0	2016-09-03 18:15:03
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate	2016-09-03 05:39:55
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.2	2016-09-02 08:50:35
IObit Malware Fighter	2016-08-31 12:35:07
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-08-30 21:14:29

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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

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

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SAFErating from user Bin for file C:\Windows\System32\taskeng.exe (Variant: 1304655)
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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
SAFErating from user S for file C:\Windows\System32\taskeng.exe