What is the "wininit.exe" ? Variant 12883698

Our database contains 368 different files for filename wininit.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the wininit.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wininit.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Start-Up Application. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process wininit.exe.

wininit.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Windows Start-Up Application
Version:
6.2.9200.16384
MD5:
fe9ab232b56a12224e8a3f3f9878c9a3
SHA1:
8f152a58e9dac43e3f9323597552bc569fa6cde5
SHA256:
09326e764daf190d1a888e6e4786fae471ef93befb03abb405357f6ded5f9abc
Size:
132608
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
Windows Defender2016-09-07 23:11:48
ESET Endpoint Antivirus 5.02016-09-07 11:17:59
Norton Security2016-09-07 09:12:23
Baidu Antivirus2016-09-07 09:12:23
Norton Internet Security2016-09-07 02:34:17
COMODO Antivirus2016-09-06 19:57:35
Panda Free Antivirus2016-09-06 11:57:44
ESET Smart Security 9.0.386.12016-09-05 21:52:26
Avast Antivirus2016-09-05 21:52:02
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Is the Process "wininit.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 "wininit.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.

User Reviews of the "wininit.exe"

  • SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe (Variant: 12228899)

    Windows 8 version of Windows Start-Up Application