What is the "explorer.exe" ? Variant 10115710

Our database contains 22581 different files for filename explorer.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the explorer.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name explorer.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Explorer. 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 explorer.exe.

explorer.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Windows Explorer
Version:
6.2.8400.0
MD5:
acf8d985d07999daa575ae64e9768a96
SHA1:
5766babcb44bec1540a9e6269fb1fec1aa2b0f52
SHA256:
8d1dc17926928d27a7e97db53bdf13991809f55c9da4e73220bfa8080f3e49bd
Size:
2386040
Directory:
C:\Windows
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
High oc2
Digital Signature:
Microsoft Windows

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
360 Total Security2016-08-28 23:44:17
Windows Defender2016-05-07 04:18:48
Avira Antivirus2015-05-23 03:27:23
avast! Antivirus2015-04-15 10:13:48
Avira Desktop2014-08-07 13:42:52
AVG Internet Security 20122014-07-16 20:18:14
ESET Smart Security 6.02013-10-18 16:03:08
AVG Internet Security 20132013-07-30 17:54:24
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 20132013-06-24 15:07:44
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate2013-03-10 17:22:34
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

Is the Process "explorer.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 "explorer.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.

98% of reviewed files with different MD5 are marked as Safe .
93% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
7% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

User Reviews of the "explorer.exe"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne (Variant: 10115710)

    "Windows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. It is also the component of the operating system that presents many user interface items on the monitor such as the taskbar and desktop." - see more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Explorer