What is the "wscript.exe" ?

Our database contains 321 different files for filename wscript.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wscript.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft ® Windows Script Host. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Microsoft ® Windows Based Script Host. Agregate rating is 3(3) stars - based on 8 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process wscript.exe.

wscript.exe Process

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

Product:
Microsoft ® Windows Script Host
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Microsoft ® Windows Based Script Host
Version:
5.8.7600.16385
MD5:
d1ab72db2bedd2f255d35da3da0d4b16
SHA1:
860265276b29b42b8c4b077e5c651def9c81b6e9
SHA256:
047f3c5a7ab0ea05f35b2ca8037bf62dd4228786d07707064dbd0d46569305d0
Size:
141824
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

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

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67% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
17% of reviewed files are marked as Threat .
17% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "wscript.exe" was discovered 4578 days ago. Our database contains 69 variants of the file "wscript.exe" with final rating Safe and 2 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
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Filename "wscript.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 "wscript.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "wscript.exe"

  • THREATrating from user GrieveTan for file C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe (Variant: 21877694)

    Eats CPU and RAM for no reason

  • SAFErating from user C_Denninger for file C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe (Variant: 40628638)

    WScript.exe is Microsoft's windows-based script host used for running Visual Basic (VBS) and Java (JS) script-files. There is also a command-based (CScript.exe) version. The executable itself is save, like the command-prompt (CMD.exe) but the scripts themselves can pose a threat to the system.
    See Microsoft's (Technet) sites for more information: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb734904.aspx#EEAA https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/wsh_overview.mspx

  • SAFErating from user Norbert for file C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe (Variant: 21950263)

    it's my own selfwritten script and so safe. greetings Norbert

  • SAFErating from user Cooperdale for file C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe (Variant: 21312454)

    It's a Microsoft process. If it's not signed by Microsoft, then it should be considered a menace.

  • THREATrating from user binded for file C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe (Variant: 21312454)

    this is a bitcoin miner not quiet sure how i got it but it uses over 80% cpu and you can read the bat files that they used for its config

  • SAFErating from user Linda Kaioh for file C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe (Variant: 7930)

    Windows Script Host executable file that allow to run scripts without console interface.

  • SAFErating from user Don for file C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe (Variant: 11215)

    WScript.exe is the Windows Scripting Host engine that allows executing JScript and VBScript scripts on Windows. It appears that the batch file is creating a temp file containing the script code and then calling the scripting engine to execute the script. Finally, it deletes the temp script file once it has been executed.