What is the "explorer.exe" ? Variant 1053909

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.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows Explorer
Version:: 6.1.7601.17567
MD5:: 8b88ebbb05a0e56b7dcc708498c02b3e
SHA1:: cea0890d4b99bae3f635a16dae71f69d137027b9
SHA256:: 9e1ec8b43a88e68767fd8fed2f38e7984357b3f4186d0f907e62f8b6c9ff56ad
Size:: 2616320
Directory:: C:\Windows
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-09-07 23:43:34
Ad-Aware Antivirus	2016-09-07 23:04:28
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition	2016-09-07 22:30:40
avast! Antivirus	2016-09-07 21:40:24
Panda Free Antivirus	2016-09-07 19:54:19
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 6.0	2016-09-07 19:18:52
Avast Antivirus	2016-09-07 19:12:17
ESET Smart Security 9.0.375.1	2016-09-07 17:16:31
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise	2016-09-07 12:46:15
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 9.0.386.1	2016-09-07 12:18:47

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 .

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MS windows explorer
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Very safe
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... if your Explorer is NOT safe, you won't be able to add any Review here ...
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More safe than that, I could'nt believe so...Thkx
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Explorer of WIndows 10 RS2
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this explorer
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How this is unknown??
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Is the default shell and file manager for Microsoft Windows.
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"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
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