What is the "wusa.exe" ?

Our database contains 45 different files for filename wusa.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wusa.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Windows Update Standalone Installer. 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 wusa.exe.

wusa.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "wusa.exe"

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Windows Update Standalone Installer
Version:
6.1.7601.17514
MD5:
8cbd6fdacdcc0ed48baf607226d6d0c9
SHA1:
b94d16ed6a439cfe591e7a20627f3033e71a10e2
SHA256:
cb128faf0430ce1a90412546e90a3b6446c74887d696485cc2c3aaf10714a428
Size:
314880
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

Is the Process "wusa.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
50% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "wusa.exe" was discovered 4420 days ago. Our database contains 11 variants of the file "wusa.exe" with final rating Safe and zero variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "wusa.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 "wusa.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "wusa.exe"

  • SAFErating from user Mindconnect2020 for file C:\Windows\System32\wusa.exe (Variant: 45289877)

    Windows 10 Update Installer

  • SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wusa.exe (Variant: 508037)

    Windows Update Standalone Installer