What is the "wins.exe" ?

Our database contains 175 different files for filename wins.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wins.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 WINS SERVER. 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 wins.exe.

wins.exe Process

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

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
WINS SERVER
Version:
5.2.3790.4893
MD5:
d8bfec6ef6a5a02f637deb6e3e36f11e
SHA1:
c7e6c50a6263042f4a68c0fcceaa79094574f9c6
SHA256:
96c128b6b36d1c490d7622432827b5494845226002856be6ceb3bed273c3127d
Size:
158720
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows Server 2003
Occurence:
High oc2

Is the Process "wins.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.
Latest new variant of the file with name "wins.exe" was discovered 4378 days ago. Our database contains 10 variants of the file "wins.exe" with final rating Safe and 51 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "wins.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 "wins.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "wins.exe"

  • SAFErating from user Rainman for file C:\Windows\System32\WINS.EXE