What is the "osk.exe" ? Variant 514745

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(R) Windows(R) Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description On-Screen Keyboard. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process osk.exe.

Product:: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: On-Screen Keyboard
Version:: 5.1.2600.5512
MD5:: 3c12e51ee8443c8943b635d9c2c6ee5f
SHA1:: 2673786b5403be4785195898b03fc46b39cd4878
SHA256:: 860ef1e64b32ac3cf966f198083d87ba83d421ea12ebb12bcbc22462376dd3ca
Size:: 214016
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: Medium

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Avira Antivirus	2016-04-01 09:50:35
gred AV	2015-06-15 23:36:03
Panda Cloud Antivirus	2015-06-15 23:36:03
Microsoft Security Essentials	2015-01-17 15:14:51
avast! Antivirus	2014-12-22 02:58:44
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012	2014-03-01 08:55:10
ALYac	2013-02-07 00:44:37
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2013	2013-01-27 06:51:14
Norton Internet Security	2012-12-23 04:58:42
Norton 360	2012-12-07 07:19:31

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

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Reviews of all osk.exe variants

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