What is the "wuauclt.exe" ? Variant 598944

Our database contains 35117 different files for filename wuauclt.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the wuauclt.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wuauclt.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Update Automatic Updates. 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 wuauclt.exe.

wuauclt.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Windows Update Automatic Updates
Version:
7.2.6001.788
MD5:
e654b78d2f1d791b30d0ed9a8195ec22
SHA1:
da84f39cb6aef15aa944d5071fd710c3bc73f197
SHA256:
a42704cc68b4f93454ef2493770df372fd2dd17f37a5a624fc77133c8591f108
Size:
51224
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows Vista
Occurence:
High oc2
Digital Signature:
Microsoft Windows Component Publisher

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
360 Total Security2016-08-25 23:59:21
ESET Smart Security 4.22016-07-12 06:54:39
ESET Smart Security 8.02016-07-11 15:06:02
Doctor Web Anti-Virus2016-07-11 15:06:02
avast! Antivirus2016-06-21 12:37:58
Kaspersky Small Office Security2016-04-17 20:37:37
Panda Free Antivirus2016-04-15 15:58:17
Kaspersky Free2016-03-20 09:10:21
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8.02016-02-21 18:37:02
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

Is the Process "wuauclt.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 "wuauclt.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.

80% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
20% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

User Reviews of the "wuauclt.exe"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\wuauclt.exe (Variant: 61)

    Windows Update Automatic Updates, used to check for available updates (for the various versions of the MS Windows platform). More info about problems with this file on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312477. This file is safe, was not marked as a threat or virus-containing application by any antivirus software. Check the MD5 hash, there can be more versions of this file.

  • SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\wuauclt.exe