What is the "osk.exe" ? Variant 12424979

Our database contains 281 different files for filename osk.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the osk.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name osk.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process osk.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard
Version:: 6.2.9200.16384
MD5:: 9de665d0d94b728a764812634b570b82
SHA1:: 86e44c3c6522ef02bbaf59e2c6666f2b15142808
SHA256:: 6285740eba56281860e77b51b40dbd730173d5257718553852212f374c10eeed
Size:: 1535488
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 8
Occurence:: Medium

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Windows Defender	2016-04-19 12:28:43
COMODO Antivirus	2015-12-18 13:33:28
avast! Antivirus	2015-10-09 11:22:14
ESET Smart Security 8.0	2015-06-24 22:14:41
Kingsoft Antivirus System Defense	2015-06-24 22:14:41
Norton Internet Security	2015-04-27 23:19:52
Kaspersky Internet Security	2015-03-11 15:55:24
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.2	2015-02-15 14:21:17
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate	2014-08-28 19:39:55

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

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

THREATrating from user RAL for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 26067532)
Keyboard hooked
SAFErating from user Majkl for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 26067532)
On-Screen Keyboard
SAFErating from user Serge for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe
SAFErating from user Goldberg for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe
SAFErating from user BillR for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 26067532)
I'm clueless why both Flor and SystemExplorer rate this as THREAT. July 2014 - Nov 2015 on Metascan-Online, in 5 checks the only threat rating is from Clam, once, since reversed. Currently VirusTotal and Jotti also give it a pass. So do 7 major AV vendors installed on systems in the past 3 weeks per SystemExplorer.
THREATrating from user Flor for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe (Variant: 20169265)
In most cases this file is the main part of the Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard application from Microsoft :
"Type without using the keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard) : Instead of relying on the physical keyboard to type and enter data, you can use On-Screen Keyboard. On-Screen Keyboard displays a visual keyboard with all the standard keys. You can select keys using the mouse or another pointing device, or you can use a single key or group of keys to cycle through the keys on the screen."
Check more info for this application on MS pages : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/type-without-keyboard#type-without-keyboard=windows-vista