What is the "snmp.exe" ? Variant 562306

Our database contains 363 different files for filename snmp.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the snmp.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name snmp.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description SNMP Service. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process snmp.exe.

Product:: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: SNMP Service
Version:: 5.2.3790.3959
MD5:: b64b7b616e773e0ee1febed62e4d413b
SHA1:: 7f2552abe84fd910b6178acc7fcafe4029016ee0
SHA256:: b534fedfdd6fce24946883a6df489b980434c42ac4d10b59caa930f55cbbad16
Size:: 39936
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows Server 2003
Occurence:: Medium

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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\snmp.exe (Variant: 19149575)
This file is a genuine MS Windows sytstem executable - the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). This utility is used to configure remote devices, monitor network performance, audit network usage, and detect network faults or inappropriate access. With this utility there is also the Microsoft Windows SNMP API - application programming interface, which serves for another applications as a connection point.

As a Windows system file with very wide usage, this executable can often be a target of a virus attack. ALways check the respective MD5 variant.
More about the functionality can be found on Microsoft MSDN pages for SNMP : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379100(v=vs.85).aspx
For a general information about SNMP check the Wikipedia source on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol