What is the "osk.exe" ? Variant 856594

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. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 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:: On-Screen Keyboard
Version:: 5.1.2600.5620
MD5:: 7515469c718985005dbeac4245cbefd5
SHA1:: 3886e403ef44e709dd0864ddcefdd1905a03334e
SHA256:: 0086d1c719a7cfab41845dc0bfa440f4a0307025f436d14debcf59faceeaa227
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
ESET Smart Security 3.0	2016-06-30 14:59:18
Avira Desktop	2016-01-06 13:05:13
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 2014	2015-03-23 15:08:36
Baidu Antivirus	2015-01-23 00:06:10
avast! Antivirus	2014-11-26 21:35:12
Microsoft Security Essentials	2014-05-18 04:41:27
ESET Smart Security 4.0	2014-01-18 11:01:59
Norton Internet Security	2013-12-02 00:33:03

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User Reviews of the "osk.exe"

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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file F:\WINXP\system32\osk.exe (Variant: 18321167)
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

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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