What is the "osk.exe" ? Variant 503443

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. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 2 reviews.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:: 6.1.7600.16385
MD5:: f0ce586aeaf318bddd443651a2e672e7
SHA1:: 1f8744f003e2571dbc1adebeb3422914d2fd9c56
SHA256:: 593a37a589cc3827b19860ff1a9044eed50fededcadba75fb13d97d611c82f2b
Size:: 646144
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 7
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Baidu Antivirus	2016-07-26 11:39:25
ESET Smart Security 4.2	2016-07-23 15:18:43
IObit Malware Fighter	2016-07-21 14:43:04
360 Total Security	2016-07-21 14:43:04
avast! Antivirus	2016-07-20 22:58:17
Kaspersky Internet Security	2016-07-15 12:42:35
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 9.0.381.1	2016-06-25 09:35:07
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 9.0.349.14	2016-05-20 22:29:49
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-05-15 19:04:12
AVG Anti-Virus Free	2016-05-10 11:11:34

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

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Our final rating for this file is Safe. Final rating is based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

91% of reviewed files with different MD5 are marked as Safe .

User Reviews of the "osk.exe"

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SAFErating from user MikeOne (Variant: 503443)
Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard for MS Windows,
SAFErating from user gevi2

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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