What is the "lsm.exe" ?

Our database contains 136 different files for filename lsm.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name lsm.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 Local Session Manager Service. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 8 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process lsm.exe.

lsm.exe is in most cases the Microsoft's Windows Local Session Manager Service. LMS is managing the connections related to the terminal server on the hosted machine.

lsm.exe Process

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

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Local Session Manager Service
Version:
6.1.7601.17514
MD5:
9662ee182644511439f1c53745dc1c88
SHA1:
6766228926eb48344451737c61d0e05dbe390591
SHA256:
d205b2c163e78ab42a5d67d7664ef6b75ea0374ff0924467d624f9db0611f0ad
Size:
343040
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

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

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
67% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "lsm.exe" was discovered 4277 days ago. Our database contains 42 variants of the file "lsm.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 "lsm.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 "lsm.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "lsm.exe"

  • SAFErating from user UPieper for file C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe (Variant: 6995)

    lsm.exe is the Microsoft Local Session Manager Service. LMS is managing the connections related to the terminal server on the hosted machine. Problems related to this service can be described in this technote : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en/winserversetup/thread/4015354a-435f-43ca-9092-96b32a809e82/

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe (Variant: 5550)

    lsm.exe is the Microsoft Local Session Manager Service. LMS is managing the connections related to the terminal server on the hosted machine.

  • SAFErating from user Maccyroo for file C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe (Variant: 676253)

    Part of Windows operating system "Local Session Manager". Provides functionality to save and restore a logged on users' current open files, application set and desktop.

  • SAFErating from user Moraxv for file C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe

  • SAFErating from user kajmik for file C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe (Variant: 500671)

    "lsm.exe" file is Microsoft "Local Session Manager" Service. LMS managing the connections related to the terminal server on the hosted machine.

  • SAFErating from user CCW for file C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe (Variant: 13063)

    Windows 7 64-bit German Fileversion: 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)

  • SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\lsm.exe