What is the "osk.exe" ? Variant 737931

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 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:: On-Screen Keyboard
Version:: 5.1.2600.2180
MD5:: c449fdb6d69414b5e5ff8fc9f7fb5b0f
SHA1:: 0fa1c30bc13848591626c0d24b6a4194a969c91d
SHA256:: 24a97ee51f204d47e63782edf567908a72e7b429073389e788a3d7cdf40d15e4
Size:: 215552
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
avast! Antivirus	2014-04-28 22:39:53
AVG Internet Security 2014	2013-12-02 04:58:43
Baidu Antivirus	2013-11-04 00:09:58
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0	2013-07-23 03:57:28
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise	2012-12-28 07:20:06
Norton Internet Security	2012-12-11 01:33:16

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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