What is the "werfault.exe" ? Variant 4450264

Our database contains 454 different files for filename werfault.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the werfault.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name werfault.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Problem Reporting. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 2 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process werfault.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows Problem Reporting
Version:: 6.1.7600.16385
MD5:: 8784236eed5079493da9fc95b28b89f8
SHA1:: dd663f6c6cf66c8b99ab32809ca74880168503bd
SHA256:: e59c349b964f585c27f63fbf7c1b5d7c6cf8cc958bd35100a36d57542dc13972
Size:: 415232
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 7
Occurence:: High

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This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Kaspersky Internet Security	2016-09-07 14:52:07
AhnLab V3 Internet Security 8.0	2016-09-07 12:51:31
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 8.0	2016-09-06 22:03:21
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 6.0	2016-09-05 07:00:56
ESET Smart Security 9.0.349.19	2016-08-30 18:58:43
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-08-28 19:31:50
Avira Antivirus	2016-08-28 19:31:50
avast! Antivirus	2016-08-25 17:58:32
Norton Security	2016-07-26 16:27:13

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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\werfault.exe (Variant: 7230235)
This executable is the genuine Windows file serving as part of the Windows Error Reporting (WER) suite : WER is a set of Windows technologies that capture software crash and hang data from end users. This executable provides the Windows Problem Reporting services and gets triggered if an application terminates unexpectedly. More info for this can be found on MSDN pages : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn641144.aspx and also in this article : http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/2012/02/17/werfault-exe-windows-error-reporting-shortcomings/
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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\werfault.exe (Variant: 12813725)
This executable is the genuine Windows file serving as part of the Windows Error Reporting (WER) suite : WER is a set of Windows technologies that capture software crash and hang data from end users. This executable provides the Windows Problem Reporting services and gets triggered if an application terminates unexpectedly. More info for this can be found on MSDN pages : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn641144.aspx and also in this article : http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/2012/02/17/werfault-exe-windows-error-reporting-shortcomings/
SAFErating from user 2472567@mail.ru for file C:\Windows\System32\werfault.exe