What is the "smss.exe" ? Variant 12228884

Our database contains 1129 different files for filename smss.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the smss.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name smss.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Session Manager. 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 smss.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows Session Manager
Version:: 6.2.9200.16384
MD5:: 08f850febdbde7c89017b6b0ca0d1cd2
SHA1:: 9663d55c451482410e901cef6b2a07f5dc721d16
SHA256:: 04b671cf2f269a12b996633e83b397f2924ebbac425919d74e2bbc3013a238b5
Size:: 132096
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 8
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Windows Defender	2016-09-07 23:11:48
ESET Endpoint Antivirus 5.0	2016-09-07 11:17:59
Baidu Antivirus	2016-09-07 09:12:23
Norton Security	2016-09-07 09:12:23
Norton Internet Security	2016-09-07 02:34:17
COMODO Antivirus	2016-09-06 19:57:35
Panda Free Antivirus	2016-09-06 11:57:44
ESET Smart Security 9.0.386.1	2016-09-05 21:52:26
Avast Antivirus	2016-09-05 21:52:02

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

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
100% of reviewed files are marked as System file.

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

Filename "smss.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.

80% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
20% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

User Reviews of the "smss.exe"

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SAFErating from user MikeOne (Variant: 12228884)
"Session Manager Subsystem, or smss.exe, is a component of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and successor operating systems. It is executed during the startup process of Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista." - check more on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Manager_Subsystem

Reviews of all smss.exe variants

Reviews for different files with filename "C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe"

SAFErating from user Berkut598 for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe (Variant: 40746619)
Ok
SAFErating from user Alex for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe
SAFErating from user Richard Soukup for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe (Variant: 51670)
smss.exe is in most cases the Windows Session Manager subsystem which is responsible for starting the user session or launching the winlogon.exe and csrss.exe processes and setting system variables. smss.exe is started by system thread and waits for either winlogon.exe or csrss.exe to end. If this happens "normally", the system shuts down. In other case, smss.exe hangs the system (stop responding).
Session Manager Subsystem, or smss.exe, is a component of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and successor operating systems. It is executed during the startup process of Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista." - check more on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Manager_Subsystem