What is the "services.exe" ?

Our database contains 1558 different files for filename services.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name services.exe. This files most often belongs to product Betriebssystem Microsoft® Windows®. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Anwendung für Dienste und Controller. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 27 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process services.exe.

services.exe is in most cases the Services and Controller app from Microsoft. The Windows Service Control Manager (SCM) (SERVICES.EXE) is a remote procedure call (RPC) server that manages creating, deleting, starting and stopping of Windows services. It is started at system boot and is RPC based so that service configuration and service control programs can manipulate services on remote machines. More info on wikipedia's Service Control Manager.

services.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "services.exe"

Product:
Betriebssystem Microsoft® Windows®
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Anwendung für Dienste und Controller
Version:
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
MD5:
24acb7e5be595468e3b9aa488b9b4fcb
SHA1:
a5b16a7d28d2ba79a9ccfc16ed480ad75a757166
SHA256:
63541e3432fce953f266ae553e7a394978d6ee3db52388d885f668cf42c5e7e2
Size:
328704
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

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

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90% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
10% of reviewed files are marked as Threat .
57% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "services.exe" was discovered 4035 days ago. Our database contains 258 variants of the file "services.exe" with final rating Safe and 127 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
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Filename "services.exe" is used by Microsoft Windows System files. Many threats uses filenames of System Processes to camouflage itself. You should consider suspected any file which uses system filename and is not stored in system directory or has invalid file version information. Correct system file contains full file version information from Microsoft.

User Reviews of the "services.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "services.exe"

  • SAFErating from user mao for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe (Variant: 41170495)

    ok

  • SAFErating from user ben for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe (Variant: 41170495)

    ok

  • SAFErating from user Ben for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe (Variant: 41170495)

    ok

  • SAFErating from user pi for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exeflag pl

  • SAFErating from user m for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exeflag pl

  • SAFErating from user як for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe

  • SAFErating from user User11649654 for file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\services.exe

  • THREATrating from user Nizk for file %USERPROFILE%\Local\services.exe (Variant: 22375973)

    Folder virus doing .exe files with names of your folders. Worm. Worm/Brontok virus

  • SAFErating from user SD-564L for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %SystemDiskRoot%\AddolCli\Function\Services.exe (Variant: 1326645)

    No more specific info can be found for this application. Anyway, this file seems to be safe, was not marked as a threat or virus-containing application by any antivirus software. Check the MD5 hash, there can be more versions of this file.

  • SAFErating from user 3hlav for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe (Variant: 508533)

    This is the Services Control Manager, which is responsible for running, ending, and interacting with system services. Use this program to start services, stop them, or change their default from automatic to manual startup.

  • SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe

  • SAFErating from user nasiruddin for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe (Variant: 103720)

    The program services.exe is an executable file that is related with the Microsoft Windows Service Manager. The utility Microsoft Windows Service Manager houses the file services.exe and is located in C:/windows/system32/services.exe. The program services.exe generally launches the utility Microsoft Windows Service Manager. This utility is capable of starting and stopping the services that the Windows provides. The services.exe is a program file that supplements the process device.exe. The process device.exe automatically loads important windows drivers such as keyboard drivers, audio drivers, keyboard and mouse drivers, PC card drivers, USB drivers and any other drivers that expose the stream interface. More info can be found on http://exe.paretologic.com/detail.php/services or Microsoft's pages on www.microsoft.com

  • SAFErating from user Moraxv for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe

  • SAFErating from user pedro for file C:\Windows\System32\msystem\services.exe (Variant: 323094)

    I agree

  • SAFErating from user UPieper for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe (Variant: 174)

    Services and Controller app from Microsoft. The Windows Service Control Manager (SCM) (SERVICES.EXE) is a remote procedure call (RPC) server that manages creating, deleting, starting and stopping of Windows services. It is started at system boot and is RPC based so that service configuration and service control programs can manipulate services on remote machines. More info on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Control_Manager

  • SAFErating from user CCW for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe (Variant: 15354)

    Windows 7 64-bit German Fileversion: 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)

  • THREATrating from user MikeOne for file %SystemDiskRoot%\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-484763869-1614574334-18083462561-100\services.exe (Variant: 63679)

    In this MD5 version, this file was marked by some antiviruses as Win32.Trojan virus. Remove it from Your computer. Scan is recommended. Check the MD5 hash and file location, there can more files with this name.

  • SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\services.exe (Variant: 22)

    Services.exe is system process which manages all system services.