What is the "vds.exe" ?

Our database contains 300 different files for filename vds.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name vds.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Virtual Disk Service. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 16 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process vds.exe.

VDS (Virtual disk service) is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks. More info on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739923(v=ws.10).aspx :

"VDS provides three interfaces: a single interface between the application layer and the service, and two interfaces between the service and provider programs in the data layer. VDS coordinates with the file-system functions, synchronizes provider activities, and coordinates between applications. Being between the application and provider, VDS presents uniform functionality to applications even though some of the underlying providers might lack such uniformity..."

vds.exe Process

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

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Virtual Disk Service
Version:
6.1.7601.17514
MD5:
8d6b481601d01a456e75c3210f1830be
SHA1:
3b513b3cf3ed7b5bc248403a87d0ab9322af8213
SHA256:
a2cef483f4231367138eef7e67fd5be5364fc0780c44ca1368e36ce4aa3d0633
Size:
533504
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

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

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
14% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "vds.exe" was discovered 4249 days ago. Our database contains 39 variants of the file "vds.exe" with final rating Safe and zero variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "vds.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 "vds.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "vds.exe"

  • SAFErating from user Mindconnect2020 for file C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe (Variant: 46645442)

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  • SAFErating from user Mindconnect2020 for file C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe (Variant: 46645442)

    Look at MikeOne's comment

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe (Variant: 18988977)

    VDS (Virtual disk service) is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks. More info on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739923(v=ws.10).aspx :
    "VDS provides three interfaces: a single interface between the application layer and the service, and two interfaces between the service and provider programs in the data layer. VDS coordinates with the file-system functions, synchronizes provider activities, and coordinates between applications. Being between the application and provider, VDS presents uniform functionality to applications even though some of the underlying providers might lack such uniformity..."

  • SAFErating from user 2472567@mail.ru for file C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe

  • SAFErating from user SD-564L for file C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe (Variant: 677352)

    Microsoft Software for VM tasks.

  • SAFErating from user Rainman for file C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe (Variant: 6863)

    VDS (Virtual disk service) is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks. More info on www.microsoft.com