What is the "wmiprvse.exe" ? Variant 552356

Our database contains 1788 different files for filename wmiprvse.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the wmiprvse.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wmiprvse.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description WMI Provider Host. 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 wmiprvse.exe.

wmiprvse.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
WMI Provider Host
Version:
6.0.6002.18005
MD5:
9495fcc01d7ab7b60e5b8ba7aefe9e3d
SHA1:
19bcbe0f19696d02155815d1f81c85975ad7ae5b
SHA256:
93f3ea0baad54b7abf6558b15818bfd239bbfda395bc909bf9d987c72bc1d1fb
Size:
247296
Directory:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wbem
Operating System:
Windows Vista
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
Avast Antivirus2016-09-06 15:17:13
BullGuard Antivirus2016-09-06 00:46:10
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

Is the Process "wmiprvse.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 "wmiprvse.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 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
4% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

User Reviews of the "wmiprvse.exe"

  • SAFErating from user Tom for file C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe (Variant: 1040)

    WMI Provider Host, Windows Vista 32