What is the "charmap.exe" ? Variant 742770

Our database contains 46 different files for filename charmap.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the charmap.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name charmap.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Character Map. 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 charmap.exe.

charmap.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Character Map
Version:
5.1.2600.0
MD5:
ac9fa2ba34225342a8897930503ae12f
SHA1:
9e843cc13f241776eb27e30312c4ebcba27ee8ab
SHA256:
113c7c85d7c144dc2967d3652fae81d0bb21ccb784551367f3078a9382edd481
Size:
80384
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows XP
Occurence:
Low oc0

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
avast! Antivirus2015-03-02 16:57:24
Microsoft Security Essentials2015-02-09 22:16:45
Quick Heal Total Security 20132013-01-26 04:55:44
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5.22013-01-25 04:28:49
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

Is the Process "charmap.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 "charmap.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 "charmap.exe"

  • SAFErating from user vix (Variant: 742770)

    A simple windows component that displays character maps from unicode and non-unicode fonts.