Estimated safety rating

a2service.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. This program triggers too many of the "possible danger" flags detailed bellow. It is yet unknown if a2service.exe is malware or not which doesn't harm your PC. We recommend you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

This program is normally stored in C:\Program Files\a-squared Free\a2service.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this file is 4367f2fbb01e4f8862e6351f1d8a16e7.

Is running as a service

This program is a Windows service. This means it runs on your PC in background, usually without showing any user interface to you. Most Windows services are useful programs, which provide useful features to other programs or to Windows in general.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs in 32-bit mode. It can not exploit the entire set of features of nowadays' PC CPUs. This ordinarily happens because the authors did not upgrade it to 64-bit code.

File description

The description stored in the program is a-squared Service.

File version

File version extracted from the file 4.5.0.14.

Manufacturer

Author Emsi Software GmbH.

Copyright

Intellectual property rights notice (C) 2003-2009 Emsi Software GmbH.

Is an encrypted file

The code of this program seems to have been compressed or encrypted so it can not be quickly analysed.

Digitally signed

a2service.exe has a digital signature. Today the large majority of virus-free programs are digitally signed.

Valid digital signature

The digital signature is broken, which means it is most likely that this program may be a virus and that someone most likely tampered with it after the signature was generated. Please be very careful regarding this!

Certifier name

Digitally signed by: Emsi Software GmbH

Issuer name

Certificate's issuer name: VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA

Can be uninstalled

It has an uninstall routine, which is a good sign. si are uninstall.