What is the "msdtc.exe" ?

Our database contains 574 different files for filename msdtc.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name msdtc.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 Microsoft ????????????. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 9 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process msdtc.exe.

This file is the main executable for the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator service. As can be found on MSDN pages:

"The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) is a transaction manager that allows client applications to include several different sources of data in one transaction. MS DTC coordinates committing the distributed transaction across all the servers enlisted in the transaction."

Check the MS DTC Service pages at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa174499(v=sql.80).aspx and related problems at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa561924.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/distributedservices/archive/2012/01/16/how-to-configure-the-msdtc-service-to-listen-on-a-specific-rpc-server-port.aspx

msdtc.exe Process

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

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Microsoft ????????????
Version:
2001.12.8530.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
MD5:
de0ece52236cfa3ed2dbfc03f28253a8
SHA1:
84bbd2495c1809fcd19b535d41114e4fb101466c
SHA256:
2fbbec4cacb5161f68d7c2935852a5888945ca0f107cf8a1c01f4528ce407de3
Size:
141824
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

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

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
11% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "msdtc.exe" was discovered 4362 days ago. Our database contains 128 variants of the file "msdtc.exe" with final rating Safe and 1 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "msdtc.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.

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