What is the "wininit.exe" ? Variant 702313

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:
6.0.6001.18000
MD5:
101ba3ea053480bb5d957ef37c06b5ed
SHA1:
738ef691944f08cf0c405a52f3f55e99ef6e8e6e
SHA256:
9a02771da9c226552a1766c2dd0295eca8b5b80aae13076ffce6a806fa5c21b8
Size:
96768
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
Microsoft Security Essentials2016-09-07 21:31:12
Kaspersky Total Security2016-09-07 18:21:12
Avira Antivirus2016-09-07 16:01:06
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition2016-09-07 14:22:25
avast! Antivirus2016-09-06 20:34:12
Kaspersky Internet Security2016-09-06 20:29:50
McAfee VirusScan2016-09-06 17:41:00
Avast Antivirus2016-09-06 15:17:13
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

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 Tom for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe (Variant: 2161)

    Windows Start-Up Application, Windows Vista 32