What is the "cmd.exe" ? Variant 12424949

Our database contains 1036 different files for filename cmd.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the cmd.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name cmd.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Command Processor. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process cmd.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows Command Processor
Version:: 6.2.9200.16384
MD5:: bf93a2f9901e9b3dfca8a7982f4a9868
SHA1:: 76128671ca0aac549a9162ef07be1e0bc94c1c31
SHA256:: 858a5766a2de54a6908a2ca30dd5983790b8c63614a455292613b129877223e9
Size:: 404992
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 8
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
ESET Smart Security 9.0.402.0	2016-09-04 19:14:09
avast! Antivirus	2016-08-29 14:06:55
Windows Defender	2016-08-26 09:00:47
Panda Free Antivirus	2016-07-27 17:54:01
360 Total Security	2016-07-27 08:50:44
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition	2016-07-22 05:01:22
Avira Antivirus	2016-06-19 14:18:50
Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 for Windows	2016-06-10 02:51:32

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Reviews for different files with filename "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"

SAFErating from user Sabrina01 for file C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe (Variant: 541265)
absolut sicher - absolutely secure
SAFErating from user CMD for file C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
SAFErating from user jpn_tm for file C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe (Variant: 19705621)
cmd.exe is the well-known system command-line interpreter - Windows Command Processor. It can be used for starting batch of system commands. Most often used MS-DOS commands are executing any executable file, changing the directory (cd), copy file (copy), delete file (del), rename file (ren), make directory (md), remove directory (rd). The process of running the CMD.EXE is described in this article : http://blog.systemexplorer.net/exe-com-bat-executables/