What is the "werfault.exe" ? Variant 650437

Our database contains 454 different files for filename werfault.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the werfault.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name werfault.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Problem Reporting. 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 werfault.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows Problem Reporting
Version:: 6.0.6002.18005
MD5:: 7bedd051b53821b040ead42db0724848
SHA1:: feb09d9e93c27087ba62800aa15d1ada60319517
SHA256:: 42c4495e5d524496a9ff879648b4d1b2998b2aab49fa612e9630bcd5d629476a
Size:: 217088
Directory:: C:\Windows\SysWOW64
Operating System:: Windows Vista
Occurence:: High

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This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
avast! Antivirus	2016-09-06 20:34:12
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition	2016-08-29 23:17:52
Avira Antivirus	2016-08-28 17:22:29
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-07-14 18:37:28
Norton Internet Security	2016-05-30 07:59:39
Kaspersky Internet Security	2016-05-05 01:20:33
Norton Security	2016-04-28 19:37:45
Norton Internet Security Online	2016-04-13 16:27:16

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SAFErating from user Greenie for file C:\Windows\System32\WerFault.exe (Variant: 587807)
Vista Home Premium MD5: 7BEDD051B53821B040EAD42DB0724848
SAFErating from user DanKelTex for file C:\Windows\System32\WerFault.exe (Variant: 587807)
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THREATrating from user loki for file C:\Windows\SysWOW64\werfault.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\SysWOW64\werfault.exe (Variant: 1035)
This executable is the genuine Windows file serving as part of the Windows Error Reporting (WER) suite : WER is a set of Windows technologies that capture software crash and hang data from end users. This executable provides the Windows Problem Reporting services and gets triggered if an application terminates unexpectedly. More info for this can be found on MSDN pages : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn641144.aspx and also in this article : http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/2012/02/17/werfault-exe-windows-error-reporting-shortcomings/